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Eradication of Polio in the Americas
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993THERE IS good reason to believe that we are on the threshold of eradicating poliomyelitis from the Americas. There has not been a case of paralysis due to wild poliovirus identified in the Western Hemisphere for well over a year, the last identified case being in Peru in September 1991.
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The future of polio eradication
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2001As the global polio eradication initiative comes ever closer to its goal of terminating of all wild poliovirus transmission, significant challenges remain. Wild poliovirus transmission must be terminated in countries where low-level transmission persists, in large reservoir countries with high population density, and in conflict countries.
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The Eradication of Polio — Progress and Challenges
New England Journal of Medicine, 2006Mark Pallansch and Dr. Hardeep Sandhu write that six years after the original 2000 target date for the global eradication of polio, public health workers are encountering several stumbling blocks.
Mark A, Pallansch, Hardeep S, Sandhu
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The eradication of polio: challenges then and now
Médecine et Santé Tropicales, 2017Malgre tous les obstacles et deconvenues rencontres, le programme d’eradication de la poliomyelite lance en 1988 devrait se concretiser par un succes dans les toutes prochaines d’annees.Que de difficultes depuis ce lancement dont la date d’atteinte de l’objectif a ete maintes fois repoussee !
Saliou, Pierre, Stoeckel, Philippe
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Eradicating polio: A balancing act
Science, 2016The Editorial “eradicating polio” by A. Adams and D. M. Salisbury (6 November 2015, p. [609][1]) presented great news about the progress of polio eradication: Efforts led by the World Health Organization (WHO) resulted in only 70 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis caused by wild polioviruses ...
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The “Extra Benefits” of Polio Eradication
International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2005Polio (poliomyelitis) probably existed well before 1789. However, it was first described, clinically, in that year by Dr Michael Underwood, a British physician (Polio Eradication, 2005).
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Polio vaccination and polio eradication
Medical Journal of Australia, 1995A, Herceg, R, Hall
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The Bumpy Road to Polio Eradication
New England Journal of Medicine, 2010Dr. John Modlin writes that perhaps the biggest bump in the road has been the emergence of circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses: genetically unstable Sabin-strain viruses that revert toward the profile of the virulent parent strain.
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