The Rocky Road to Zero: How Polivirus Has Become The Great Survivor
After the success of eradicating smallpox, the journey began nearly 40 years ago to also remove polio from the planet. The challenge of consigning a second disease to the history books is ongoing, with $1 billion per year being spent trying to destroy it. The simplest of all public health interventions - a few drops of vaccine into a child’s mouth-is enmeshed by a complex web of geopolitical barriers. The definitive interruption of poliovirus transmission will only be possible if the Polio Programme can overcome them.
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