(CNN) -- India is to be certified polio-free by the
World Health Organization after going three years without an endemic
case of polio. The eradication of polio in India is heralded as one of
the biggest achievements in global health efforts.
The polio-free
certification by the Regional Certification Commission is to occur
Thursday, along with a proclamation that Southeast Asia is free of the
disease.
Just five years ago,
India was home to nearly half the global polio cases and considered one
of the most technically difficult places to eradicate the disease,
because of sanitation challenges and high-density population. India's
last case was reported in a two-year-old girl paralyzed by polio in West
Bengal in January 13, 2011.
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