India reaches milestone of no cases of wild poliovirus for 12 months

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Gurmeen Kaura1,
Tamoghna Biswas2

¹Bethesda, Maryland
²Kolkata, India

India, one of the world’s four endemic countries (the others being Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria) for transmission of wild poliovirus, has experienced a year without reporting any cases for the first time. The last case—of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1)—was recorded on 13 January 2011 in the state of West Bengal.

WHO launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988 and intensified …

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