You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Iraqi Children at Risk as Polio Spreads from Syria

HeadlineApr 08, 2014

An outbreak of polio in Syria has officially spread into neighboring Iraq amid warnings scores of Iraqi children could be at risk. The disease was confirmed in a six-month-old baby boy in Baghdad late last month, marking Iraq’s first case in 14 years. Polio has paralyzed dozens of children in Syria where it emerged last year for the first time since 1999. The virus has been traced to Pakistan, where anti-polio workers have come under frequent attack after a polio vaccination campaign was used by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top