Polio eradication effort challenged, but not derailed
- Written by Walt Orenstein, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Global Health, and Epidemiology, Emory University
Decades of innovation, collaboration and old-fashioned sweat and tears have yielded the fewest polio cases to date, with the world on the cusp of complete eradication of polio. Yet to date, smallpox is the only disease that has been eradicated.
Those of us who work to eradicate polio have been extremely pleased that the number of polio cases has...
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