Eradication is an all-or-nothing affair. The aspirational goal set by the World Health
Assembly in 1988 of eradicating poliomyelitis by 2000 was not achieved. 1 A 99.9 …

Abstract The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, launched in 1988, is close to achieving its
goal. In 2015, reported cases of wild poliovirus were limited to just two countries …

The articles in this theme issue of the Bulletin address the complex policies of polio
eradication. The end of wild poliovirus transmission is not the end of the story, as certification …

Since its launch in 1988, the World Health Organization's Global Polio Eradication Initiative
has reduced worldwide polio incidence by> 99%. The most dramatic progress was achieved …

In its history of more than two decades, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), led by
national governments and the World Health Organization, has made remarkable headway …

poliovirus vaccine (OPV), and evidence of widespread transmission of these vaccine-
derived viruses (mainly type 2) 2 among under-immunized populations in Africa and Asia [6 …

Executive summary The year 2022 may well go down in history as the year of contrasts in
the global effort to eradicate polio. At first glance, with polio detections in such places as …

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

Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, January 2016–March 2018 | MMWR Skip
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World Polio Day, on October 24, is an annual opportunity to revitalise attention and efforts
towards the global eradication of this now rare but still fatal and deva statingly disabling …