Includes frontispiece: Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau in heavily timbered and rainy southeastern Alaska (photograph by J. Malcolm Greany, Juneau). A report on Alaska appears on pages 877-912.
Steele, James H.; Zinn, Raymond; Courter, Robert; Galton, Mildred M.;
Published Date:
Oct 1960
Source:
Public Health Rep. 75(10):970-972
Description:
These recommendations were prepared by Dr. James H. Steele, chief, and Dr. Raymond Zinn, Dr. Robert Courter, and Mildred M. Galton of the Veterinary Public Health Section, Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service.
The Global Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis certified the eradication of type 2 poliovirus in September 2015, making type 2 poliovirus the first human pathogen to be eradicated since smallpox. The eradication of ty...
Hadler, Stephen C.; Prevots, D. Rebecca; Strebel, Peter M.; Sutter, Roland W.; Wharton, Melinda;
Corporate Authors:
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.), Immunization Practices Advisory Committee.. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). National Immunization Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
Published Date:
January 24, 1997
Source:
MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports / Centers for Disease Control. 1997; 46(RR-3):1-25.
Series:
MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports ; v. 46, no. RR-3
Description:
These revised recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) replace recommendations on poliomyelitis issued in 1982 and 1987, and present a new ACIP poliovirus vaccination policy that increases reliance on inactivated pol...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.
Published Date:
February 2018
Series:
Public health preparedness and response : ready for emergencies
Description:
As the world works to eradicate polio, we must take precautions to minimize the risk of eradicated polioviruses being released from the laboratories and facilities that retain them.Why It MattersPoliovirus can affect the central nervous system, resul...
Jorba, Jaume; Diop, Ousmane M.; Iber, Jane; Henderson, Elizabeth; Zhao, Kun; Sutter, Roland W.; Wassilak, Steven G.F.; Burns, Cara C.;
Published Date:
Oct 26 2018
Source:
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2018; 67(42):1189-1194
Description:
Since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 (1), the number of polio cases worldwide has declined by >99.99%. Among the three wild poliovirus (WPV) serotypes, only type 1 (WPV1) has been detected since 2012. This decline is att...