RADS Journal of Biological Research & Applied Science (Jul 2012)

The Global Polio Eradication Initiatives: From Past to Present

  • Shazia Tabassum Hakim,
  • Sayyada Ghuffrana Nadeem,
  • Shaista Malik,
  • Urooj Javed,
  • Abdul Basit Khan

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2

Abstract

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The war against infections is one that has been remuneration all through the history of human. In this centuries-long effort the worldwide population has prepared remarkable advancement in stopping infections, therapeutic infections, and enlarging living expectancies. Up till now for all our successes, only once in history 30 years ago, with smallpox made completely eliminate an infection from the earth. Now a days we are on the entrance of eradicating the earth of polio an infection able of crippling and killing many children. The story of polio is both lengthy and hesitant. The arrival of efficient vaccines in the 1950s facilitated polio prevention, and the resultant struggles were victorious wildly, however confronts still continue (Plan, 2011).