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CDC Around the World: Oct. 24 is World Polio Day

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October 24 is World Polio Day. CDC & partners will not stop
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TWO VACCINES FOR ONE POLIO-FREE WORLD

Polio was once considered one of the most frightening diseases in the world until a team led by Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine. World Polio Day, held every October 24 to celebrate Salk’s birthday, is an opportunity for everyone working to eradicate polio to renew their commitment to creating a polio-free world for future generations. Today most of the world is polio-free, but the disease continues to disable children in some countries. And as long as polio exists anywhere, the disease remains a threat everywhere...read blog
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IMPACT OF A POLIO-FREE AFRICA

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A NEW TOOL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POLIO: THE INACTIVATED POLIO VACCINE (IPV)

For decades, the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) has been the main tool used to eradicate polio. But at the end of 2012, global immunization experts made a landmark recommendation that every country in the world exclusively using OPV should add at least one dose of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) to their national immunization schedule by the end of 2015. This new policy meant that 126 countries around the world have to change their national immunization schedule within the short timeframe of only 3 years...watch video
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FINDING EVERY LAST POLIOVIRUS

Eradicating polio from the world forever will be one of the biggest public health achievements of our time. Surveillance Officers like Amina Ismail, working for the World Health Organization in Kenya, know that it is not just vaccinating every last child but being able to trace every last virus that will take us over the finishing line to eradication...read story
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