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JERUSALEM, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli Ministry of Health on Thursday announced that it has stopped the latest spread of the poliovirus in the country. In early March, the first case of polio since 1989 was detected in Israel, which recorded eight more cases by April. In one of the cases, a four-year-old child was paralyzed by the infection. Following this, the ministry launched a nationwide vaccination campaign for children and adolescents up to the age of 17. On Thursday, Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services at the health ministry, said that the vaccination campaign has led to...
