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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap Polio returns to cripple Angola and its neighbours AFP - Sunday, February 6 Send IM Story Print Polio returns to cripple Angola and its neighbours LUANDA (AFP) - – Linda Afonso's right leg is stiff and atrophied but she does not know the name of the disease that made it that way. The 13-year-old lives in Cacuaco, a sprawling slum in the northern suburbs of the Angolan capital, Luanda. When she was a small child, her leg became partially paralysed. "My parents took me to the hospital, but they couldn't do anything," she said. Afonso doesn't know the name of her disease because polio, the acute viral infection that can cause irreversible paralysis or death, was eradicated in Angola in 2002, shortly after she caught it. Despite Angola's crumbling health infrastructure and poor sanitation in the slums of Luanda -- where thousands of refugees fled during the country's 27-year civil war -- health workers managed to eliminate new polio infections from 2002 to 2005. But just as anti-polio campaigners chalked up another victory in the international fight against the disease, a strain of the virus reappeared, thought to have been carried by Indian workers employed on post-war rebuilding projects. In 2010, Angola registered 32 new cases of polio in the Luanda area, in the east of the country and in the exclave province of Cabinda. The virus also spread to two neighbouring countries where it had been considered eradicated -- 93 cases were reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and 50 in Congo. The region was responsible for two-thirds of the cases recorded in Africa last year. "We imported the polio virus from India and unfortunately exported it to Congo and the DRC," Health Minister Jose Van-Dunem told AFP. "That's why we have the responsibility, from a moral standpoint, to eradicate it." A high-level delegation from various international organisations, including the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), last month visited Angola and extracted a promise from President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of his "personal commitment" to the anti-polio campaign. The government has pledged to vaccinate Angola's 5.6 million children under the age of five by the end of the year. "Angola now is almost the most important front in the global war on polio, and the whole world is watching to see how we do here," UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said during the visit. "The (vaccination) campaign's beginning in a couple of months here. We hope that with the support of the president we will succeed next year and that will be a giant step forward to what would be an historic moment." But tackling the polio resurgence will take more than just vaccinations. Health officials also face the difficult job of bringing clean water to more households and building infrastructure for sanitation and water treatment, since polio is highly contagious and is transmitted through faeces. During rainy season in the slums of Luanda, water floods the streets and forms muddy puddles that pose a health threat to neighbourhood children. These areas also suffer severe shortages of drinking water. The luckier households have access to public taps, others spend much of their income on bottled water. On the road to Cacuaco, at the spot where an open sewer spills into Luanda Bay, dozens of children are playing in a stream of dirty water. "This stagnated water is like fire to these children, because it's definitely contaminated with faeces and other bacteria," says Edson Monteiro, a water and sanitation expert with UNICEF in Angola. "While they're playing, water can come into their mouth and they can contract cholera or polio." Recommend Send IM Story Print News Search Top Stories Clinton urges accountability across Mideast Polio returns to cripple Angola and its neighbours Drive to unify euro economy as rescue roadmap set January snowstorms cloud US jobs market Saucy speaker's wife pic causes storm in Britain More Top Stories » ADVERTISEMENT Most Popular Most Viewed US golfer Woods finds old habits hard to shake Russia loses military satellite: reports US auto sales jump 17 percent in January Dow closes over 12,000 for first time since June 2008 Egypt's Mubarak to step down at September election More Most Viewed » More Most Recommended » Elsewhere on Yahoo! Financial news on Yahoo! 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