World witnesses a tumultuous year while India reports an eventful decade in the long story of polio eradication

With recent outbreaks in Syria and Horn of Africa, silent circulation of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in Israel, West Bank, and Gaza, and fresh spate of violence against vaccinators and their security personnel in Pakistan, the world is facing a turbulent final ascent to the summit of polio eradica...

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Main Author: Sanjay Chaturvedi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Community Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.ijcm.org.in/article.asp?issn=0970-0218;year=2014;volume=39;issue=2;spage=63;epage=67;aulast=Chaturvedi