Epidemiological Endgame: Is Polio on the Brink of Eradication?
Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 08:23
in Health & Medicine
Despite the pointless political assassinations of vaccine workers or the police officers who guard them in a few deeply troubled areas, enough progress has been made against polio in the past year that health experts are now planning for the grand finale--its complete eradication by 2018. The official to-do list of what needs to be done and when to obliterate the crippling childhood disease--which goes by the name Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013–2018 ( pdf )--will be formally presented at an international health meeting in Abu Dhabi on April 25. [More]