Global polio eradication campaigns with oral polio vaccine have eradicated wild type polio, yet have been a failure in terms of increasing acute flaccid paralysis cases in children. Case numbers have increased dramatically in spite of oral polio vaccination programs. This is what i call, "The Failure of Global Polio Eradication." (37) (Polio eradication: a failure by Paul Yash)
A Wake Up Call
This failure is a Wake Up call to re-examine what we are doing, and ask some fundamental questions about the etiology of acute flaccid paralysis in children. Spending six billion dollars on a live polio vaccine against the wild type polio virus is obviously not the answer.(36) Let us spend the money on the right questions, so we can do the right studies and find the right answers.
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