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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2004;292:1805-1806.

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As World Polio Day is remembered on October 24, public health workers find themselves tantalizingly close to eradicating the disease, yet frustratingly stymied in their efforts to do so.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 with a deadline to vaccinate all children around the world by 2000 and to make poliomyelitis the second disease (after smallpox) that has been eradicated worldwide. Setbacks pushed that deadline back to 2005, but initiative officials were confident the goal would be reached.

Indeed, by late 2003, polio had been eliminated from all but 6 countries (Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Niger, Afghanistan, and Egypt) and fewer than 1000 children worldwide developed the disease. According to estimates by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, 5 million children have been spared the disease and 250 000 childhood deaths have been averted since the eradication effort began.

Global polio eradication efforts are currently focusing on India, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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