Angola has reported a case of polio _ its first in four years, the U.N. health agency said Saturday, a day after confirming a new case of the disease in Indonesia. Angola's Ministry of Health contacted the World Health Organization last month after a 17-year-old girl living in the capital of the African nation developed paralysis in both legs, said Oliver Rosenbauer, a WHO spokesman, according to AP. Rosenbauer said her case was unconnected to a West African polio strain that has spread to 16 countries in Africa and Asia, most recently Yemen and Indonesia. «It's a polio case genetically linked to a virus circulating in India,» he said. On Friday, WHO confirmed a new case of polio in Indonesia's Lampung province, bringing the country's total known number of cases to 66. Yemen has had 284 cases since the virus was reintroduced earlier this year. --More 2024 Local Time 1724 GMT
