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Article: Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication--India, 2003.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- March 26, 2004
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Since the World Health Assembly resolved in May 1988 to eradicate poliomyelitis, the estimated global incidence of polio has decreased >99%, and three World Health Organization (WHO) regions (Americas, Western Pacific, and European) have been certified as polio-free (1). Since 1994, when the countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR) * began accelerating polio-eradication activities, substantial progress toward that goal has been made (2-4). By 2001, poliovirus circulation in India had been limited primarily to the two northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with 268 cases reported nationwide. However, a major resurgence of polio occurred during 2002, with ...