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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… surveillance • Sewage samples taken from fixed sites in select countries • Can be highly sensitive, but … convergent sewage network, sewage contaminants) • Site and network size indicators still under development … deployments vary widely • Endemic areas with dozens of sites • Ad-hoc /temporary sites in some areas with recent …