January 16, 2012

The first anniversary is marked in India without a single recorded case Polio   According to ScienceInsider. Last diagnosis of the disease was marked by old girl a year ago.

At the moment, experts expect the results of the laboratory analysis That could confirm or deny the information that polio is really eradicated in India, and scientists hope that in a few weeks it will be possible to talk about the victory over the disease. The financial support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in the framework of the WHO program significantly contributed to improving the situation in the country.

India is one of four countries where the local public health has been unable to resist the penetration of the virus natural foci of the disease. The high density of population, poverty, unsanitary conditions - all of these factors require a different approach to eradicate polio. In many situations, guided saved from charities vaccine , The volume of which reached half a billion pieces per year. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has been working for 23 years, and to fight disease undelivered spent eight billion dollars.

Victory over polio can be called one of the most striking achievements of the World Programme of WHO. Despite this, the full vaccination against this disease will continue in the future because of the significant risk of the disease returning. Three million children in the coming months it is planned to be vaccinated against polio.