Infectious diseases : Polio: an end in sight?  

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Reynolds, Toby

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7625 (Oct. 2007), page 852.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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By the end of 2001 a massive immunisation campaign had driven poliomyelitis out of all but a few isolated pockets of resistance, and the world looked set to rid itself of one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. Cases of paralytic polio had fallen from more than 350 000 in 125 infected countries in 1988 to under 500 in 10 endemic countries in 2001: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Niger, Somalia, Egypt, Angola, Ethiopia, and Sudan.1 Optimists hoped that the next three years would be entirely free of infection, meaning that by 2005 the virus could be consigned to history books alongside smallpox—the only disease to be eradicated by a vaccination programme. Those hopes were dashed as the disease flared up first in 2002 in northern India, where vaccination efforts had been scaled back, and then in northern Nigeria a year later, after rumours that the vaccine caused . . .

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