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Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication--Nigeria, January 2014-July 2015. [PDF]

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2015
Since the 1988 launch of global poliomyelitis eradication efforts, four of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions have been certified polio-free.
Etsano A, Gunnala R, Shuaib F, Damisa E, Mkanda P, Ticha JM, Banda R, Korir C, Chevez AE, Enemaku O, Corkum M, Davis LB, Nganda GW, Burns CC, Wassilak SG, Vertefeuille JF.   +15 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Poliomyelitis Eradication in Iran: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]

, 2013
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Eradication of poliomyelitis in Iran is a significant health achievement regarding a vaccine-preventable disease which used to paralyze tens of children every year.
Bijan Sadrizadeh, Seyed Mohsen Zahraei
openalex   +2 more sources

Sabin Vaccine in Poliomyelitis Eradication: Achievements and Risks

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2019
Poliomyelitis eradication using the oral polio vaccine (OPV), also known as the Sabin vaccine, has been a major medical achievement led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and various countries.
Omar A. Nafi, Bashar Ramadan
doaj   +2 more sources

Poliomyelitis – on the verge of eradication

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2017
No abstract ...
Deepa Gamage
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Poliomyelitis Eradication in China: 1953–2012 [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
Poliomyelitis has historically been endemic in China and has been considered an important cause of disability and death.We reviewed strategies and measures of poliomyelitis control and eradication from 1953 to 2012. Data from notifiable disease and routine immunization reporting systems and acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance were analyzed.About
Wen-Zhou, Yu, Ning, Wen, Yong, Zhang, Hai-Bo, Wang, Chun-Xiang, Fan, Shuang-Li, Zhu, Wen-Bo, Xu, Xiao-Feng, Liang, Hui-Ming, Luo, Li, Li   +9 more
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Enterovirus Surveillance (EVSurv) in Germany

Microorganisms, 2021
The major aim of the enterovirus surveillance (EVSurv) in Germany is to prove the absence of poliovirus circulation in the framework of the Global Polio Eradication Program (GPEI).
Kathrin Keeren, Sindy Böttcher, Sabine Diedrich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Progress and peril: poliomyelitis eradication efforts in Pakistan, 1994-2013. [PDF]

J Infect Dis, 2014
Alexander JP, Zubair M, Khan M, Abid N, Durry E.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Vaccine Refusal: A Major, Underestimated Obstacle for the Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative.

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2023
In 1988, the WHO launched the Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative with the goal of eradication by 2000. Not only has this goal, which has been repeatedly postponed, still not been achieved, but while the wild polio virus is still endemic in two ...
B. Seytre
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Analysis of Registered Cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis in Stara Zagora District as a Part of Polio Eradication Strategy

Acta Medica Bulgarica, 2023
Poliomyelitis is the infection that, after smallpox, is a “serious candidate” for eradication worldwide. In accordance with the WHO strategy for 2022-2026, epidemiological surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is carried out with the aim of ...
Simeonova I., Mladenova I., Petrov D.
doaj   +1 more source

Eradication of poliomyelitis in countries affected by conflict

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000
The global initiative to eradicate poliomyelitis is focusing on a small number of countries in Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan) and Asia (Afghanistan, Tajikistan), where progress has been hindered ...
R.H. Tangermann, H.F. Hull, H. Jafari, B. Nkowane, H. Everts, R.B. Aylward   +5 more
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