Polio in a sentence

As in the case of polio, which is seeing a resurgence world wide, with environmental samples and human cases throwing up both wild polio virus as well as vaccine derived polio virus.

Mclnally highlighted Nigeria’s support for global polio eradication efforts and polio-free status, having been certified as a polio-free nation in 2020.

Bulbospinal polio Approximately 19% of all paralytic polio cases have both bulbar and spinal symptoms; this subtype is called respiratory or bulbospinal polio.

Dr. Luhanga said the new outbreak for the country requires a response with a Novel Oral Polio Type 2 Vaccine (n- OPV2) as per guidance from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.

Lennox said she was inspired to get involved with End Polio Now because they are so close to eradicating polio that she wanted to do what she could to help secure that victory.

PM Shehbaz outlined that over the past six months, two nationwide polio eradication campaigns were successfully conducted, along with five additional campaigns targeting polio-affected areas.

Polio can cause lifelong paralysis and up to 10% of children who have paralysis from polio die, as the virus affects the muscles that allow them to breathe, the CDC notes.

And in 1949, there was another polio epidemic and I had polio.

He explained that the team is hoping that all the effort and strength built toward eradicating polio will result in polio free countries in the African region.

He recalled that in 2013, he pledged to continue the work of polio eradication till Nigeria and the world is polio-free.

In 2019, we have seen an increase in immunization services and close to 8 million children under 5 received a booster dose of bivalent oral polio vaccine to reduce the risk of polio importation from neighbouring countries.

Jonas Salk developed a polio vaccine that became widely used in 1955, and another oral polio vaccine was developed in 1961.

Most of the vaccine-derived strains of polio are in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but now these rogue strains of polio are also turning up across much of sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Nigeria, which was among the wild polio endemic countries globally, attained wild polio-free status after meeting all the criteria for certification, which included three years of non-detection of any wild poliovirus case in the country.

Their job is to go for door to door counselling of parents about the importance of the polio vaccine in order to ensure that no child falls victim to polio or any other preventable childhood disease.

The last reported case of polio in the Americas was in 1991, and by 1994 the Western Hemisphere was declared polio-free.

Today, more than 30 years since an Australian, Sir Clem Renouf, launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, via an international vaccination campaign of the kind that eliminated smallpox, polio cases worldwide are rising, not falling.

If the WHO certifies Nigeria polio-free, and two months later we find polio in Nigeria that will not be the idea.

The addition of the polio vaccine to the campaign will also help to bolster protection against polio virus type 1 and 3 among all Somali children.

This year, India celebrates 5 years of certified polio-free, sending out a strong signal that the nation’s polio surveillance programme is exemplary.