A country at war now has a new foe....<br /> <br />The World Health Organization has detected at least 22 cases of polio -a disease that causes paralysis- in Syria. Now it warns of the risk of spreading...<br /> <br />WHO Spokesman Oliver Rosenbauer:<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) WHO SPOKESMAN, OLIVER ROSENBAUER, SAYING<br /> <br />"In terms of the danger of course this is a communicable disease and with population movements it can travel, it can travel to other areas, and so the risk is high of spread across the region of course."<br /> <br />The Geneva-based organization has made calls for the vaccination of around 500,000 Syrian children.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) WHO SPOKESMAN, OLIVER ROSENBAUER, SAYING<br /> <br />"They all appear to be very young so less than aged 2 and they all appear to be under or unimmunized."<br /> <br />All this as the fighting continues...<br /> <br />Amateur video that Reuters cannot independently verify purports to show government forces shelling a Damascus neighborhood.<br /> <br />With 4,000 Syrian
