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Polio Endgame: Innovations in Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
Background: Provides a definition of eradication and of the disease: that it affects mostly children, results in paralysis in some cases and is preventable through vaccination. The disease is nearly eradicated, but remains in three… read more… Virus detection activities currently take place in 70 countries to both detect new cases and gain evidence for … 02-Sep-18 6 07-Sep-18 8 NA 0 PNG NA 0 NA 0 NA 0 18-Oct-18 26 WPRO NA 0 NA 0 NA 0 18-Oct-18 26 Global 31-Dec-18 30 … The polio program closely tracks the poliovirus in 70 countries by regularly collecting environmental samples …