After India’s unexpected feat of freeing itself from polio, the target to eradicate the debilitating disease from the world, set in 1988, seems possible When the WHO South East Asia region receives the certificate for being polio free on Thursday, it would be an accomplishment that until a few years ago was considered a pipe dream—mainly because of the large number of cases that continued to be reported from India.

As recently as 2009, India accounted for 741 out of the total 1,604 polio cases recorded across the world. While some experts believed that India would be the last country to be declared polio free, others said it a task that could never be accomplished.

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