U.N., Fearing a Polio Epidemic in Syria, Moves to Vaccinate Millions of Children- The New York Times

United Nations officials said Friday that they were mobilizing to vaccinate 2.5 million young children in Syria and more than eight million others in the region to combat what they fear could be an explosive outbreak of polio, the incurable viral disease that cripples and kills, which has reappeared in the war-ravaged country for the first time in more than a dozen years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/world/middleeast/syria-polio-epidemic.html?_r=0