Could you post some info on that? My understanding is that the last 2 countries with endemic polio are Afghanistan and Pakistan (shocked face, I know!). The last medically documented case outside of those 2 countries was in Nigeria (shocked face 2) in 2018.
Could you post some info on that? My understanding is that the last 2 countries with endemic polio are Afghanistan and Pakistan (shocked face, I know!). The last medically documented case outside of those 2 countries was in Nigeria (shocked face 2) in 2018.
https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e7856/rr/620395
Instead of abandoning the ineffective vaccines the polio disease was reclassified (a disease with a residual paralysis resolving within 60 days changed into a disease with residual paralysis persisting for more than 60 days, seemingly resulting in eradication of 90% cases, since the majority of polio paralysis cases resolved within 60 days) and new names introduced: Guillain-Barre syndrome, ascending paralysis, viral meningitis.
https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e7856/rr/620395
>Instead of abandoning the ineffective vaccines the polio disease was reclassified (a disease with a residual paralysis resolving within 60 days changed into a disease with residual paralysis persisting for more than 60 days, seemingly resulting in eradication of 90% cases, since the majority of polio paralysis cases resolved within 60 days) and new names introduced: Guillain-Barre syndrome, ascending paralysis, viral meningitis.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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