Global Polio Eradication- The Ongoing Push

By |2017-02-10T09:51:22-07:00December 30th, 2011|Prevention|

Public health efforts eradicated smallpox from the globe in the late 1970s.  The last naturally occurring case was in Somalia in 1977 (followed by a couple of lab accident cases in 1978).  Public health’s sites have been set on Polio eradication for the last couple of decades.  We got close a couple of times, but [...]