Our progress against polio

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center for Global Health (U.S.)
• Description:
  CDC and its international partners have made significant progress toward polio eradication over the past 33 years.
  
  • The annual number of wild poliovirus cases has declined by more than 99.9% worldwide from an estimated 350,000 in 1988 when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched.
  
  • Of the three serotypes of wild poliovirus, type 2 was certified as eradicated in 2015 and type 3 was certified as eradicated in 2018.
  
  • The last evidence of wild poliovirus type 1 transmission in Nigeria was in September 2018, leaving only two polio-endemic countries (having never interrupted the transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus type 1), which are Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  
  • Five out of six World Health Organization regions are now certified wild poliovirus free—the African Region, the Americas, Europe, South East Asia and the Western Pacific.
  
  • Without our polio eradication efforts, more than 18 million people who are currently healthy would have been paralyzed by the virus.
  
  • Global polio eradication efforts stopped 14 of 29 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPVs) outbreaks active in 2019. Setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic and polio outbreak response campaign quality must be addressed to regain progress and end every form of polio.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  If you have a severe allergic reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine -- If you have a non-severe allergic reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine -- If you get a rash where you got the shot -- Safeguards Are in Place -- CDC Is Monitoring Reports of Severe Allergic Reactions
• Subjects:
  Global Health Poliomyelitis/prevention & Control
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c516b4aa66048ea3659f1b2b7af6ff075d02f3e07c1d9ec0add1c0a064601c81
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/105145/cdc_105145_DS1.pdf
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