laskin flooding across japan as one of the last 60 years it's the island nation. i'm british welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us it's a threat the philippines thought it had ended when it did but it's back after 19 years for you'll at least 2 children have been found to have contracted the virus it has also been detected in sewerage in manila and a waterway in the south of the country the government has declared an outbreak and efforts are being made to immunize billions of children by some estimates 3 out of 5 children in the philippines and not immunized against a 4 year old boy is a highly contagious disease that spreads through person to person contact and immunization is the only way to prevent it. one of us has been monitoring the philippines response to the outbreak and joined benaud from manila and estimates for the number of children under the age of at risk at about 11000000 what is being done to reach them. so the philippines after eradicating polio for nearly 2 decades confirmed 2 cases and the health department has classified this as an