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The 15-year campaign to eradicate polio is suffering its second major setback in two years, with the disease spreading in Nigeria and spilling into several polio-free countries nearby. The report this week of a case in Togo brings to three the number of West African countries where the polio virus has been reintroduced from a hot spot of the disease in northern Nigeria. The other countries are Ghana and Burkina Faso.