Polio Epidemiology: Strategies and Challenges for Polio Eradication Post the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lucia F. Bricks, Denis Macina, Juan C. Vargas-Zambrano · 2024
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Lucia Bricks, Denis Macina, and Juan Vargas-Zambrano review polio after the COVID-19 pandemic in a 2024 paper. A worldwide drive launched in 1988 cut wild polio cases by over ninety-nine percent. Two of the three wild types were declared gone in 2015 and 2019. The last type still circulates in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and vaccine-derived strains spark outbreaks where coverage is low.
The pandemic broke routine vaccination and left millions of children unprotected. The review surveys where the virus stands now, country by country. It weighs the tools left: better vaccines, sharper surveillance, and outreach in hard-to-reach areas. The end of polio is close, the authors argue, but the last stretch is the hardest.
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| CREATOR | Lucia F. Bricks, Denis Macina, Juan C. Vargas-Zambrano |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |