Reflections on Global Polio Eradication

By |2017-02-10T09:49:23-07:00December 4th, 2014|Prevention|

For the last several years global public health has been coming down the home-stretch to eradicate Polio from the globe - making it the 3rd infectious disease to be eliminated - joining smallpox and rinderpest.  Polio incidence has dropped 99% in the last 20 years…going from 350,000 cases in 1988 to only 279 cases so [...]