Major milestone reached in global polio eradication

Path to polio eradication in India: a major milestone.

Global Polio Eradication – Way Ahead

In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis by the year 2000. Although substantial progress was achieved by 2000, global polio eradication proved elusive. In India, the goal was accomplished in 2011, and the entire South-East Asia Region was certified as polio-free in 2014. The year 2016 marks the lowest wild poliovirus type 1 case count ever, the lowest number of pol...

A milestone reached?

Polio vaccine development in Canada: contributions to global polio eradication.

The paper briefly describes Canada's distinctive experience in the control of polio and offers some lessons for governments and health policy leaders in other jurisdictions, particularly as they consider immunization policies for the post-polio-eradication era.

Global eradication of guinea worm disease: Toward a newer milestone

| December 2014 | 1207 in 1995. To achieve eradication, a country should be free of indigenous cases for three consecutive years. Precertification stage will be reached after completion of one complete year free of indigenous case of Guinea worm disease (one incubation period for D. medinensis). An indigenous case is defined as infection occurring in a person exhibiting a skin lesion or lesions...