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Eradication of poliomyelitis: where do we stand in Europe?
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In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted the goal of global
eradication of poliomyelitis by immunisation, a target which was to
originally be achieved by the end of the year 2000. Eradication of
polio is now also one of three top priorities of the World Health
Organisation, along with reduction of smoking and control of malaria.
Since 1988, substantial progress has been made. Mass immunisation
campaigns and national immunisation days have been performed repeatedly
in many countries with remarkable success
for example, the last case
of polio in the Americas occurred in 1991 and the last case occurred in
the Western Pacific region in 1997.
In the meantime, the date for eradication of the disease has been moved to the end of 2002 and intensified activities are needed if this goal is to be achieved in the remaining endemic countries of Africa (>2800 cases in 1999) and Asia (>3300 cases in 1999).
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