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Reported cases of polio were down 95% in Nigeria (to a historic low of 21 cases) and 94% in India (to a historic low of 42 cases) compared to the previous year, with little change in Afghanistan (from 38 to 25 cases) and an increase in cases in Pakistan (from 89 to 144 cases).
In 2003, in northern Nigeria – a country that at that time was considered provisionally polio free – a fatwa was issued declaring that the polio vaccine was designed to render children sterile. [149] Subsequently, polio reappeared in Nigeria and spread from there to several other countries.
19 lut 2024 · The last case of wild poliovirus serotype 3 was seen in 2012 in Nigeria and declared eradicated in 2019. The maps below the chart show how polio was eliminated in more and more countries. Back in 1980, polio was still endemic in 147 countries around the world.
History of Polio. In the early 20th century, polio was one of the most feared diseases in industrialized countries, paralysing hundreds of thousands of children every year. Soon after the introduction of effective vaccines in the 1950s and 1960s however, polio was brought under control and practically eliminated as a public health problem in ...
1 wrz 2022 · Nigeria's Polio Journey to Zero. It's been three years now and Nigeria has not recorded a single case of wild polio. A network of frontline workers and traditional leaders have been instrumental in polio eradication and strengthening community health systems.
The interactive map presents the number of polio cases per 1 million inhabitants of each country, to account for differences in the population size and make comparisons between countries more meaningful.
12 sie 2016 · In a major setback to the global campaign to eradicate polio, Nigeria has seen its first cases of wild poliovirus in more than two years, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva,...
