Syria WHO representative discusses polio outbreak REFILE TO ADD SOUNDBITE ON PAKISTANI STRAINEmergency plans are under way to vaccinate more than 20 million children in the Middle East after polio resurfaced in war-torn Syria. More than 650,000 children in Syria, including 116,000 in war-ravaged Deir Ezzor province where the polio outbreak was confirmed, have been immunised, according to the World Health Organisation. Images and soundbites