In developed countries as well as in Hungary polio virus related disease disappeared completely due to the extensive administering of vaccine. As a result, young and middle-aged doctors have no experience of encountering acute polio virus infection but instead they meet its resultant impairments and disabilities. Persons who had suffered the onset of poliomyelitis 3 or 4 decades earlier, may to...

BACKGROUND The goal of polio eradication is to complete elimination and containment of all wild, vaccine-related and Sabin polioviruses. Vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) surveillance in China from 2001-2013 is summarized in this report, which has important implications for the global polio eradication initiative. METHODS Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases and their contacts with VDPVs isola...

D eradication is an attractive public health goal. In addition to eliminating illnesses and deaths, eradication can lead to substantial cost savings. Eradication has been attempted for many human and animal diseases, such as smallpox, malaria, hookworm disease, polio, rinderpest, yaws, dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease), and yellow fever, and many tools have been employed in these efforts. Bu...

Since the 1988 World Health Assembly resolution to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio), transmission of wild poliovirus (WPV) has been interrupted in all countries except Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. No polio cases caused by WPV type 2 (WPV2) have been identified since 1999, and WPV type 3 has not been detected since November 11, 2012. This progress has been achieved through widespread use o...

Polio, although has been eradicated from many parts of the world still continues to be prevalent in countries like India, Nigeria and Pakistan. This is a source of concern because a single human carrier in any part of the world is a threat and might lead to resurgence in polio all over the world. There are several reasons for this e.g. lack of information, misinformation, lack of delivery of he...

Background As the global polio eradication initiative prepares to cease use of oral polio vaccine (OPV) in 2020, there is increasing interest in understanding if oral vaccination provides non-specific immunity to other infections so that the consequences of this transition can be effectively planned for and mitigated. Methods Data were collected from infants in an urban slum in Bangladesh (Mi...

The desire to help others in need could be considered to be a fundamental human quality. Yet, with so many suffering from the crushing effects of poverty, hunger, violence and disease, we may wonder if it is possible to make a difference at all. As a Nigerian lawyer, and President of Rotary International, I have solid proof that the answer to this is " yes ". Although they are not always seen, ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) (1). Among the three wild poliovirus (WPV) serotypes, only type 1 (WPV1) has been detected since 2012. Since 2014, detection of WPV1 has been limited to three countries, with 37 cases in 2016 and 11 cases in 2017 as of September 27. The >99.99% decline worldwide in polio cases since the launch of the GPEI...