BBC: Geneva: Tackling polio has entered “emergency mode” according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after “explosive” outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease.
It has launched a plan to boost vaccination in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the only countries where the disease is still endemic.
Experts fear the disease could “come back with a vengeance”.
The World Health Organization says polio is “at a tipping point”.
There have been large outbreaks of the virus in Africa, Tajikistan and China has had its first cases for more than a decade.
‘Relentless’: Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO’s polio eradication campaign, said: “Over the last 24 months on three continents – in Europe, in Africa and in Asia – we have seen horrific explosive outbreaks of the disease that affected adults, and in some cases 50% of them died.
“What it reminded people is that, if eradication fails, we are going to see an huge and vicious upsurge of this disease with consequences that it is very difficult even to foresee right now.”
Instead of erasing Kalimas may be the Mullahs could support a vaccination campaign.