POLIO ERADICATION: THE BIGGEST PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTION

Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease, epidemic and endemic throughout the world. It is caused by one of three types of an ultra-microscopic virus namely Wild Polio Virus type 1,2 and 3 (WPV1, WPV2 and WPV3).  World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to eradicate Polio in 1988.1-3 At the time the...

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Main Author: Fazal Ather
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Khyber Medical University 2012-12-01
Series:Khyber Medical University Journal
Online Access:https://www.kmuj.kmu.edu.pk/article/view/11381