World Polio Day
…poliomyelitis. The polio eradication effort has made impressive progress towards eliminating polio from the planet. In 1988 it was estimated that there were a total of 350,000 cases of poliomyelitis…
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India has been free of polio for three years
…they also revert and become capable of causing paralysis. Such vaccine-derived polioviruses circulate and can cause outbreaks of polio. Because India has been using Sabin poliovirus vaccines intensely for many…
India polio-free for one year
…the world will have to switch to using inactivated poliovaccine. Related: Wild poliovirus in China Dreaming of inactivated poliovaccine Poliomyelitis after a twelve year incubation period Poliovirus vaccine litigation …
Can India remain polio-free?
…to Shahnaz Wazir Ali, the Pakistani Prime Minister’s focal person for polio, there is little risk for export of the virus from Pakistan: The likeliness of polio virus being exported…
World Polio Day
…led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus vaccine developed by Albert Sabin led…
Venezuela is still polio-free
…India, even though polio was declared eradicated from that country in 2014. AFP surveillance is used as part of the poliovirus eradication effort to identify cases of polio. When cases…