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Detailed explanation-1: -Mr. Dzulkefly said tests showed the baby’s strain had genetic links to the polio virus detected in Philippines and investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the infection. Malaysia’s last polio case occurred in 1992 and the country was declared polio-free in 2000.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first epidemics appeared in the form of outbreaks of at least 14 cases near Oslo, Norway, in 1868 and of 13 cases in northern Sweden in 1881. About the same time, the idea began to be suggested that the hitherto sporadic cases of infantile paralysis might be contagious.

Detailed explanation-3: -Health authorities in Mozambique declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus on Wednesday after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province, had contracted the disease.

Detailed explanation-4: -Only two polio-endemic countries (nations that have never interrupted the transmission of wild poliovirus) remain-Afghanistan and Pakistan. Without our polio eradication efforts, more than 20 million people who are currently healthy would have been paralyzed by the virus.