Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years
...an has set itself a target to eradicate the deadly poliomyelitis virus within two years with the support of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, Afghan Health Minister Muhammed Amin Fatimi said here Friday. About 7.4 million children in Afghanistan needed to be immunized against polio and ...Eradicating Polio a Better Option Than Control of the Disease: Study
...ion Initiative has reduced the global incidence of poliomyelitis by 99%, at a cost of more than $4 billion. Kimberly Thompson, Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science at HSPH, and Radboud Duintjer Tebbens, a research associate at HSPH, used a mathematical model to demonstrate the importance of ......o vaccine all but eradicated the crippling disease poliomyelitis in 1955, opened the Institute in 1965 with a gift of land from the City of San Diego and the financial support of the March of Dimes. Source-Newswise SRM......orld Health Organization (WHO), two fresh cases of poliomyelitis were reported one from Lower Juba and another from Mudug region//, in southern Somalia and northeastern Somalia respectively. These regions, with security-related restrictions, present a risk to neighbouring countries. The cases also threaten the p...