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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Khyber Medical University
2012-12-01
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Series: | Khyber Medical University Journal |
Online Access: | https://www.kmuj.kmu.edu.pk/article/view/11381 |