News What will become of the polio network? Polio could be history within a few years, but what will become of the vast network set up to fight the disease is unclear. Health experts fear that once polio is eradicated, donors will stop funding the diversified network, which now helps immunize children against many other diseases, fight outbreaks and respond to natural disasters. When a massive ...

BACKGROUND Although rare, adverse events may associate with anti-poliovirus vaccination thus possibly hampering global polio eradication worldwide. OBJECTIVE To design peptide-based anti-polio vaccines exempt from potential cross-reactivity risks and possibly able to reduce rare potential adverse events such as the postvaccine paralytic poliomyelitis due to the tendency of the poliovirus geno...

Polio has killed and disabled millions. It was therefore with considerable excitement that the Global Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a public–private partnership, announced US$5·1 billion campaign to achieve polio-free world by 2025.1The InitiativeWho we are.https://polioeradication.org/who-we-are/Date accessed: June 23, 2021Google Scholar The GPEI been in forefront of polio eradication efforts...

Since the 1988 World Health Assembly resolution to eradicate poliomyelitis, three World Health Organization (WHO) regions (Americas, European, and Western Pacific) have been certified polio-free, and the number of countries with endemic polio has decreased from 125 in 1988 to six in 2003 (Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria, and Pakistan). During January 2003-March 2004, importations of w...

Polio, although has been eradicated from many parts of the world still continues to be prevalent in countries like India, Nigeria and Pakistan. This is a source of concern because a single human carrier in any part of the world is a threat and might lead to resurgence in polio all over the world. There are several reasons for this e.g. lack of information, misinformation, lack of delivery of he...

BACKGROUND Use of mobile information technology may aid collection of real-time, standardised data to inform and improve decision-making for polio programming and response. We utilised Android-based smartphones to collect data electronically from more than 8,000 households during a national round of polio immunisation in South Sudan. The results of the household surveys are presented here, toge...

Objective There is conflicting evidence in recent literature about whether the incidence of schizophrenia increasing or decreasing. A role for prenatal and early childhood viral infections aetiology has also been debated. We examined catatonic subtype over a 30-year period Finland. investigated rate was linked to changes exposure infection (polio measles) during infant period. Methods Persons w...

In studies conducted on polio survivors with late effects of poliomyelitis, new fatigue is frequently reported. The main purpose of the present study was to examine the characteristics of polio survivors reporting severe fatigue versus those reporting mild or no fatigue. From a survey among 276 representative Norwegian polio survivors, we recruited all patients with mild/no fatigue and those wi...