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On October 29, 2000, the Regional Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication certified that the Western Pacific Region (WPR) of the World Health Organization (WHO) is free of indigenous wild poliovirus transmission. The last known case of indigenous poliovirus transmission occurred in Cambodia in March 1997 in a 15-month-old girl. WPR is the second of the six WHO regions to be certified as poliomyelitis-free; the first was the Region of the Americas in 1994. WPR comprises 37 countries and territories (Figure 1) with an estimated 1.6 billion persons (27% of the world's population).
2000年10月29日，根除脊髓灰质炎认证委员会认证，世界卫生组织（WHO）西太平洋区域（WPR）已无本土野生脊髓灰质炎病毒传播。已知最后一例本土脊髓灰质炎病毒传播病例于1997年3月发生在柬埔寨一名15个月大的女童身上。西太平洋区域是世界卫生组织六个区域中第二个被认证为无脊髓灰质炎的区域；第一个是1994年的美洲区域。西太平洋区域包括37个国家和地区（图1），估计有16亿人口（占世界人口的27%）。
