WHO responds to major polio outbreak in Angola

Health workers in war torn Angola are struggling to contain one of the worst epidemics of polio that international organisations have seen worldwide in a decade. “This clearly is a huge outbreak,” warned Harry Hull, senior adviser for polio eradication at the World Health Organisation's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. “It's a tragedy.”

By 11 May, the most recent date for which figures are available, the WHO had received official reports of 818 cases of …