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Surveillance to Track Progress Toward Polio Eradication - Worldwide, 2018-2019
- Source :
- MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 69(20)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched in 1988, the number of polio cases worldwide has declined approximately 99.99%; only two countries (Afghanistan and Pakistan) have never interrupted wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission (1). The primary means of detecting poliovirus circulation is through surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) among children aged
- Subjects :
- Acute flaccid paralysis
Health (social science)
Epidemiology
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
medicine.disease_cause
Global Health
01 natural sciences
World health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Health Information Management
Environmental health
Poliomyelitis eradication
Medicine
Humans
Paralysis
030212 general & internal medicine
0101 mathematics
Disease Eradication
business.industry
Transmission (medicine)
Poliovirus
010102 general mathematics
Outbreak
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Poliomyelitis
Population Surveillance
business
Laboratories
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1545861X
- Volume :
- 69
- Issue :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a40fd9a825d48bcb1ec0fa7c50a9093a