Showing Polio the Finger: A Lesson in Public Health

Just a few months left to Eradication!!

Scepticemia

As students of Public Health, we, in India, are witnessing history in the making. It is not often that one gets to see, and be a part of a revolution that is the eradication of a disease. I know that global polio eradication is still under threat because of multiple issues. And with countries in which eradication had been achieved falling prey to re-emergence of the virus, the question looms large whether we shall be able to achieve global eradication in time (or ever at all!). However, India is merely weeks away from reaching the third consecutive year without registering a single polio case and is well on its way to become one of the countries with eradication status. One prime driver for this sustained success has been the massive vaccination campaign that has targeted the disease in a way one has never seen before.

As part of the push…

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