Consistently high vaccination rates and global health surveillance programs have helped eliminate poliomyelitis (polio) in almost all countries of the world, except Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Apr 28 2024European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Consistently high vaccination rates and global health surveillance programs have helped eliminate poliomyelitis in almost all countries of the world, except Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet non-polio enteroviruses can also lead to the same devastating symptoms of 'acute flaccid paralysis' , but the world is lacking formal surveillance systems to trace and control these viruses with paralytic potential.
There is much to celebrate about the story of polio elimination. For example, WHO estimates without the 10 billion or so oral poilo vaccines given over the last decade, some 6.5 million children could today be living with polio-induced AFP.
Concerned about the lack of valid data on the burden of non-polio enteroviruses, Prof Fischer and her colleagues in the ENPEN network have been investigating the circulation of paralytic enteroviruses in Europe including enterovirus D68 and enterovirus A71 and documented the circulation of these "poliovirus cousins" in all countries where they have looked.
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