Assessing and Mitigating Local Vulnerabilities to Completeness of Global Polio Eradication COMMENT

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Ananda S Bandyopadhyay, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Walter Orenstein, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-01-27
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piab102
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: JOURNAL OF THE PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 3
• End Page: 4
• Keywords: Infectious Diseases; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Pediatrics
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

The battle to eradicate poliomyelitis is at a crossroads in 2021 with endemic wild-type poliovirus (WPV) transmission at historic lows in Pakistan and Afghanistan, whereas the emerging and ongoing outbreaks of circulating type 2 vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV2) pose a serious challenge to the global program [1]. Two papers in this issue reporting studies in Chad and India illustrate both the risks of re-introduction of virus transmission in polio-free geographies as well as affordable mitigation options to protect the populations from paralytic disease [2, 3].