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This is what it's like to live with polio
Updated 03:58, 21-Mar-2022
Lucrecia Franco

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The Pan American Health Organization is urging countries of the Americas to redouble efforts to vaccinate children against polio to avoid a resurgence of the highly-contagious disease that was eradicated from the continent in 1994.

Last year, Brazil, considered a champion of immunization, saw vaccination rates hit their lowest levels in almost a decade.

One polio survivor, Eliana Gonçalves, is a living reminder of what the crippling disease can cause and has become a vaccine advocate against all odds.

She spoke to CGTN about what that was like.  

Health organization urges increased polio vaccinations in the Americas

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The Pan American Health Organization, or PAHO, is urging countries in the Americas to redouble efforts to vaccinate children against polio, or poliomyelitis, to avoid a comeback of the highly contagious disease eradicated from the continent in 1994.

Last year, vaccination rates in Brazil, considered Latin America’s immunization champion, hit the lowest level in nearly a decade.

Lucrecia Franco reports from Rio de Janeiro.

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