Eradicating polio: one last push
From the Blog beenasarwar [image: jafarihamid20_db_photo_jpg_autocropped]*My oped for The News International, Pakistan, published March 29, 2016. * Polio-free Pakistan: one last push *Beena Sarwar* “Not since the eradication of smallpox in 1980 has the world had a chance to wipe out an incurable, but preventable, human disease, “ says Dr Hamid Jafari, former director of the World Health Organization’s Global Polio Eradication Department.Each year of delay in stopping the wild poliovirus, transmitted person to person through contact with infected human faeces, costs the global community a billion dollars. That’s what it takes to maintain the immunisation programme that must be sustained as long as even one case of polio is detected. Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the wild pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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