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The Last Mile in Polio Eradication: Program Challenges and Perseverance

Pathogens
As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) strategizes towards the final steps of eradication, routine immunization schedules evolve, and high-quality vaccination campaigns and surveillance systems remain essential.
Rocio Lopez Cavestany, Martin Eisenhawer, Ousmane M. Diop, Harish Verma, Arshad Quddus, Ondrej Mach   +5 more
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Evolution of global polio eradication strategies: targets, vaccines, and supplemental immunization activities (SIAs)

Expert Review of Vaccines
Background Despite multiple revisions of targets and timelines in polio eradication plans since 1988, including changes in supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) that increase immunity above routine immunization (RI) coverage, poliovirus ...
Kimberly M. Thompson, Kamran Badizadegan
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Battle of Polio eradication in the Western Pacific Region in the transition to COVID-19 endemicity

Journal of Infection, 2023
The Polio eradication campaign has been set back substantially since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent detections of poliovirus transmission in multiple high-income countries suggest suboptimal population immunity in many parts of the world even ...
Ruobing Mei, Shirley L. L. Kwok, E. H. Lau, Tiffany H. K. Lo, Joseph T. Wu, L. Lin, Kathy Leung   +6 more
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The History and Current Killings of Polio Vaccinators in Pakistan: A Need for Targeted Surveillance Strategy

Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 2023
Poliomyelitis has been eliminated from all countries of the world except Pakistan and Afghanistan. One of the major reasons is the stigmas associated with the polio vaccine that has been repetitively discussed in literature, and governments of both the ...
Braira Wahid, B. Kumari, K. Saifullah, M. Idrees   +3 more
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Enabling accelerated vaccine roll-out for Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEICs): Novel Oral Polio Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) experience

Vaccine, 2022
To address the evolving risk of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) partners are working closely with countries to deploy an additional innovative tool for outbreak response – novel oral ...
Grace R. Macklin, C. Peak, M. Eisenhawer, Feyrouz Kurji, O. Mach, John O. Konz, Chris Gast, N. S. Bachtiar, A. Bandyopadhyay, S. Zipursky   +9 more
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Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, January 2020–April 2022

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
In 1988, the World Health Assembly established the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). Since then, wild poliovirus (WPV) cases have decreased approximately 99.99%, and WPV types 2 and 3 have been declared eradicated. Only Afghanistan and Pakistan
A. Rachlin, Jaymin C. Patel, C. Burns, J. Jorba, G. Tallis, Aidan O'Leary, S. Wassilak, J. Vertefeuille   +7 more
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A novel tool to eradicate an ancient scourge: the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 story.

Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2022
The recent detection of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) in London (UK) and a case of paralytic polio in New York (USA) have highlighted how the scourge of poliomyelitis has not been totally overcome and remains an international problem, not confined to
A. Bandyopadhyay, S. Zipursky
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What poo tells us: wastewater surveillance comes of age amid covid, monkeypox, and polio

British medical journal, 2022
Sewage surveillance is going through a rebirth as covid, monkeypox, and now polio bring new urgency to virus detection.
Bryn Nelson
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Polio by the Numbers—A Global Perspective

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Investments in national immunization programs and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have resulted in substantial reductions in paralytic polio worldwide. However, cases prevented because of investments in immunization programs and
K. Badizadegan, D. A. Kalkowska, K. Thompson   +2 more
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What Is Polio?

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2022
This JAMA Patient Page discusses polio, including its epidemiology, prevention, and symptoms.
Kristin L Walter, P. Malani
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