Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two remaining countries that have not been able to stop the spread of poliovirus. Since January 2024, Pakistan has reported as many as 63 confirmed cases of polio.
While many countries in the world have been declared polio-free, Afghanistan's status, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, is still 'ongoing'. Pakistan, too, has failed to control cases of polio.
Future Outlook: The fight against polio continues with a focus on the following strategies and considerations.
Large-scale immunization campaigns, often called National Immunization Days, have been instrumental in reaching vulnerable populations with the polio vaccine.
World Polio Day is a time to reflect on our journey, achievements, and the path forward.
Post-Polio Syndrome is a condition that affects polio survivors years, or even decades, after their initial recovery from the acute poliovirus infection.
After ten years in New York, polio was found in a 20-year-old youth. However, the patient has been discharged from the hospital.
India and the entire WHO South-East Asia Region were officially declared as being polio-free on March 27, 2014.
Pakistan hopeful of eradicating polio by next year
WHO lauds Indian Govt., uses polio network for Mission Indradhanush
How will Pakistan eliminate polio if the workers keep getting attacked?
Polio-free India - 5 amazing facts about the journey that helped us eradicate polio
Are we really polio free? Suspected polio case in West Bengal!
Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The virus enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine. Initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and pain in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). Among those paralysed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.
Once one of the most feared diseases worldwide which was responsible for paralysing many children, polio has been contained to a large extent. There are with only three epidemic regions left in the world Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. India, which only a decade ago accounted for most of the world's cases hasn't reported a new case in the last two years. A joint initiative between the WHO, various governments and multiple private partners, it represents the world's largest and most successful private-public partnership (PPP) initiative. The goal is to obviously eradicate the disease completely like rhinderpest and small pox. For that every last child must get the polio vaccine. Here are some facts about the polio eradication campaign:
Need cautious effort to eradicate polio: Experts
India, Pakistan unite to 'bowl out polio'
Indian docs to perform polio surgeries in Nigeria
First polio case of 2012 reported in India
Sushil Kumar, Vijendar Singh and their fellow Olympians fight for polio eradication
New polio cases in Pakistan alarms WHO
Bill Gates lauds India's triumph over polio
Second phase of pulse polio immunization campaign successful
India declared polio-free by WHO!
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two remaining countries that have not been able to stop the spread of poliovirus. Since January 2024, Pakistan has reported as many as 63 confirmed cases of polio.
While many countries in the world have been declared polio-free, Afghanistan's status, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, is still 'ongoing'. Pakistan, too, has failed to control cases of polio.
Large-scale immunization campaigns, often called National Immunization Days, have been instrumental in reaching vulnerable populations with the polio vaccine.
World Polio Day is a time to reflect on our journey, achievements, and the path forward.
Post-Polio Syndrome is a condition that affects polio survivors years, or even decades, after their initial recovery from the acute poliovirus infection.
After ten years in New York, polio was found in a 20-year-old youth. However, the patient has been discharged from the hospital.
India and the entire WHO South-East Asia Region were officially declared as being polio-free on March 27, 2014.
Pakistan hopeful of eradicating polio by next year
WHO lauds Indian Govt., uses polio network for Mission Indradhanush
How will Pakistan eliminate polio if the workers keep getting attacked?
Polio-free India - 5 amazing facts about the journey that helped us eradicate polio
Are we really polio free? Suspected polio case in West Bengal!
Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The virus enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine. Initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and pain in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). Among those paralysed, 5% to 10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.
Once one of the most feared diseases worldwide which was responsible for paralysing many children, polio has been contained to a large extent. There are with only three epidemic regions left in the world Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. India, which only a decade ago accounted for most of the world's cases hasn't reported a new case in the last two years. A joint initiative between the WHO, various governments and multiple private partners, it represents the world's largest and most successful private-public partnership (PPP) initiative. The goal is to obviously eradicate the disease completely like rhinderpest and small pox. For that every last child must get the polio vaccine. Here are some facts about the polio eradication campaign:
Need cautious effort to eradicate polio: Experts
India, Pakistan unite to 'bowl out polio'
Indian docs to perform polio surgeries in Nigeria
First polio case of 2012 reported in India
Sushil Kumar, Vijendar Singh and their fellow Olympians fight for polio eradication
New polio cases in Pakistan alarms WHO
Bill Gates lauds India's triumph over polio
Second phase of pulse polio immunization campaign successful
India declared polio-free by WHO!
India very close to being declared 'Polio-free'
