Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Poliomyelitis (Polio, Infantile paralysis)

The disease

Poliomyelitis [WHO/CDC]

Poliomyelitis [CDC]

Poliomyelitis [CDC-NCID-Travelers' Health]

Frequently asked questions

Poliomyelitis [NYSDOH]

Epidemiology

The importance of maintaining high coverage polio vaccination beyond global eradication of wild type poliomyelitis. Eurosurveillance Weekly. Vol. 8, Issue 4. 22 January 2004.

UN says polio is spreading to countries where it had been eradicated. United Nations (New York) 9 January 2004.

New WHO Director-General steps up global polio eradication effort as polio threatens other countries. [WHO Press Release] 29 July 2003.

Other links

Eradicating polio [UNICEF]

Vaccine-preventable disease photos [Poliomyelitis] [IAC]

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