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As Assads forces continue cutting off food, medicine, water supplies to besieged towns, malnutrition, disease rates rise - with infants worst affected. World reacts by calling opposition terrorists... 24-10-2013: At least 22 people are now suspected of having polio in Syria, where health officials are scrambling to respond to the first outbreak of the crippling viral disease in 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday. Most of those stricken with acute flaccid paralysis - a symptom of diseases including polio - in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor are children under the age of two, WHO spokesman Oliver Rosenbauer said.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:42:38 +0000

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