Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), paralytic cases associated
with wild poliovirus (WPV) have fallen from∼ 350,000 in 1988 to 22 in 2017. WPV type 2 …

As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) strategizes towards the final steps of
eradication, routine immunization schedules evolve, and high-quality vaccination …

Despite substantial progress, global polio eradication has remained elusive. Indigenous
wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission in 4 endemic countries (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and …

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched in 1988. By 2006, transmission
of indigenous wild poliovirus (WPV) was interrupted in all but four countries (Afghanistan …

Polio cases due to wild virus are reported by only three countries in the world. Poliovirus
type 2 has been globally eradicated and the last detection of poliovirus type 3 dates to …

Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, January 2016–March 2018 | MMWR Skip
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Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, knowledge as to
the nature of circulating polioviruses and the challenges to their interruption has increased …

Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) transmission remains endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Outbreaks of paralysis due to circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs) occur in …

Since 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was established, the incidence of
polio has decreased from an estimated 350,000 cases annually to 1,655 reported in 2008 …

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