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A six-year old boy in Papua New Guinea woke up one day in 2018 and was suddenly unable to stand up. Less than a year later, children in three other Asia Pacific nations were experiencing the same alarming symptoms.
A disease that had been thought to have been eradicated from this region 18 years before was back -- and it appeared to be spreading.
Producers: Jane Lee, Cheyne Anderson
An ABC Science Unit. ABC Radio National and BBC World Service co-production.
Picture: Child receiving a polio vaccination from health worker at a mobile clinic on a street in Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands, Credit: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
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A six-year old boy in Papua New Guinea woke up one day in 2018 and was suddenly unable to stand up. Less than a year later, children in three other Asia Pacific nations were experiencing the same alarming symptoms.
A disease that had been thought to have been eradicated from this region 18 years before was back -- and it appeared to be spreading.
Producers: Jane Lee, Cheyne Anderson
An ABC Science Unit. ABC Radio National and BBC World Service co-production.
Picture: Child receiving a polio vaccination from health worker at a mobile clinic on a street in Mount Hagen in the Western Highlands, Credit: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

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