The World Health Organisation (WHO) officially certified 11 Asian countries including Bangladesh free of polio Thursday (March 27th), a milestone lauded as a "momentous victory", AFP reported.
The countries certified were India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, South Korea, Indonesia, Maldives, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and East Timor.

The region was certified by a panel of experts after the countries went three years without reporting a new case.
The WHO said the certification means 80% of the world'...