Polio Endgame: How India Beat the Monster

India has had an incredible journey of becoming polio-free in a span of two decades. The conventional vaccination strategies and innovative approaches to ensure that every child in the remotest of the villages of India gets immunized have been an achievement in itself. The year 2020 marks six years...

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Autor principal: Madhekar, Anuja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7772060/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-1095-7
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description India has had an incredible journey of becoming polio-free in a span of two decades. The conventional vaccination strategies and innovative approaches to ensure that every child in the remotest of the villages of India gets immunized have been an achievement in itself. The year 2020 marks six years of living a dream that a sprawling country like India had harboured for long, and the efforts to keep the country polio-free need to continue until this dreadful disease gets eradicated globally.
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spelling pubmed-77720602020-12-30 Polio Endgame: How India Beat the Monster Madhekar, Anuja Reson General Article India has had an incredible journey of becoming polio-free in a span of two decades. The conventional vaccination strategies and innovative approaches to ensure that every child in the remotest of the villages of India gets immunized have been an achievement in itself. The year 2020 marks six years of living a dream that a sprawling country like India had harboured for long, and the efforts to keep the country polio-free need to continue until this dreadful disease gets eradicated globally. Springer India 2020-12-30 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7772060/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-1095-7 Text en © Indian Academy of Sciences 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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