International experts have praised India for having just one case of polio in the first six months of this year. According to them, India has run very high quality vaccination campaigns. They, however, added that a plan to rid the world of polio by the end of next year is off track. The report by independent monitors, warned that Pakistan risks becoming the last global outpost of this vicious disease. It has also resurfaced in four other countries. There were around 1,000 cases of polio worldwide last year. The virus remains present in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan and in the countries where it has resurfaced there, have been twice as many cases – 162 – as there were in the endemic countries. The experts are also particularly concerned about new cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad.