Polio eradication: Current status and challenges
For more than two decades mankind has been dreaming of a "polio-free world." However the dream is yet to be realized owing to various problems related to transmission of wild polio virus transmission as well as vaccine-derived polio virus. These problems are as much scientific as human. Th...
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| description | For more than two decades mankind has been dreaming of a "polio-free world." However the dream is yet to be realized owing to various problems related to transmission of wild polio virus transmission as well as vaccine-derived polio virus. These problems are as much scientific as human. The article briefly discusses the current status of polio control across the globe, and various challenges associated with it in a nation-wise manner. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a3104f5dab0a44ca8317deb1c189e9052022-12-21T17:56:41ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632012-01-0112848510.4103/2249-4863.104936Polio eradication: Current status and challengesSoumyadeep BhaumikFor more than two decades mankind has been dreaming of a "polio-free world." However the dream is yet to be realized owing to various problems related to transmission of wild polio virus transmission as well as vaccine-derived polio virus. These problems are as much scientific as human. The article briefly discusses the current status of polio control across the globe, and various challenges associated with it in a nation-wise manner.http://www.jfmpc.com/article.asp?issn=2249-4863;year=2012;volume=1;issue=2;spage=84;epage=85;aulast=BhaumikPolio eradicationpolio transmissionvaccine derived polio viruswild polio virus |
| spellingShingle | Soumyadeep Bhaumik Polio eradication: Current status and challenges Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care Polio eradication polio transmission vaccine derived polio virus wild polio virus |
| title | Polio eradication: Current status and challenges |
| title_full | Polio eradication: Current status and challenges |
| title_fullStr | Polio eradication: Current status and challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Polio eradication: Current status and challenges |
| title_short | Polio eradication: Current status and challenges |
| title_sort | polio eradication current status and challenges |
| topic | Polio eradication polio transmission vaccine derived polio virus wild polio virus |
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