- Title
- The risks of medical complacency towards poliomyelitis
- Creator
- May, Meryta; Durrheim, David; Roberts, Jason A.; Owen, Rhonda
- Relation
- Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 213, Issue 2, p. 61-63.e1
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50681
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- In 1988, there were over 350 000 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis globally.1 In 2018, there were 29 cases and in 2019 there were 112 cases2 — all in the only two remaining countries in the world where wild poliovirus (WPV) is endemic (Afghanistan and Pakistan). We are tantalisingly close to global eradication.
- Subject
- Australia; certification; disease eradication; feces; global health; poliomyelitis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437774
- Identifier
- uon:40458
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-729X
- Language
- eng
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