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The India is on the threshold of the declared free of polio was detected after a single case in the past 12 months, the World Health Organization, said Thursday.

Sona Bari, spokesman for the global polio eradication initiative (GPEI), who is the head, who said that she face "Nail-Stitchers" weeks before they expect the remaining laboratory test results.

Last of the polio victim India a girl of 18 months in Bengal, was reported on January 13, 2011.

If all tests are negative means the India a year without case reached and be checked no more polio is endemic.

The India had traditionally recognized as the highly contagious, to eliminate the debilitating diseases that primarily affect one of the toughest places in the world less than five years.

Until 2009, there was a 741 cases of polio - more than any other country in the world.

"We are very confident that all the results will be negative," said Bari.

"India then are endemic polio."

"No child not be paralyzed by polio in India for the first time in history."

Innovations of Bari in vaccines, funding and commitment to the success of the Indian people attributed to.

Last year, two national immunization days were made to 172 million of children less than five years.

"The success of the India is probably the greatest public health success and provided a global opportunity for the end of polio push", said Director General Margaret Chan.

"The lessons of the India must now be adapted and implemented by emergency measures to stop polio anywhere."

Polio caused by a virus that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a few hours.

See the five to ten per cent affected die when their breathing muscles are immobilized, according to the who.

The disease is still in the three countries-Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan is endemic.

The situation in Nigeria and Pakistan "is on a precipice," said Bari, but the containment of the disease in India shown in environments the most demanding can be achieved.

"We need is political and financial commitment", she said.

Polio has historically thrived in India, because of its high density of population and poor sanitation.

The disease has been primarily in the two northern States of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar that host large groups of migrants and where the health system is low.

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