News Wrap: UN says polio outbreak is global emergency
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In our news wrap Monday, the World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency amid outbreaks of polio across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The U.N. agency says the number of new cases last year nearly doubled to 417. Also, some landslide survivors say they haven’t received assistance after the disaster in northeastern Afghanistan killed as many as 2,700 people.
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