By Andreas Rinke

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany has gone back on plans to cut its contribution to a global fund to support the eradication of polio after authorities found traces of a variant of the disease in Hamburg wastewater, officials said on Friday.

In last-minute negotiations finalising the 2026 budget, legislators decided to allocate an additional 4 million euros to Germany’s contribution to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, bringing the total contribution to 23 million euros ($26.82 million).

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that regular wastewater sampling had found traces of the wild variant of the polio virus in Hamburg in a blow to eradication efforts more than 30 years after the last wild polio infection in Germany.

The World Health Organisation said it was the first such

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