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NEW THIS TUESDAY: BOOK REVIEW, PARALYSED WITH FEAR ...

The Lancet, Volume 381, Issue 9880, Pages 1805 - 1806, 25 May 2013 Polio revisited Original Text Paul Offit a Paralysed with Fear: the Story of Polio Gareth Williams Palgrave Macmillan, 2013336 £20·00. ISBN-9781137299758 ... read more

- - - SUCCESSES AND SHORTCOMINGS OF POLIO ERADICA ...

  SUCCESSES AND SHORTCOMINGS OF POLIO ERADICATION: A TRANSMISSION MODELING ANALYSIS Am. J. Epidemiol. (2013) 177 (11): 1236-1245. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws378 First published online: April 16, 2013   Successes and Shortcomings of Polio ... read more

- - - WANING INTESTINALIMMUNITY AFTER VACCINATION ...

WANING INTESTINAL IMMUNITY AFTER VACCINATION WITH ORAL POLIOVIRUS VACCINES IN INDIA Journal of Infectious Diseasesjid.oxfordjournals.org J Infect Dis. (2012) 205 (10): 1554-1561. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jis241 First published online: March 23, 201 ... read more

- - - EVALUATING THE AFP SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN SO ...

EVALUATING THE ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2005-2009 - AN ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY DATA    Landiwe Siphumelele Khuzwayo1,2,&, Lazarus Rugare Kuonza1,2, Ntombenhle Judith Ngcobo3 1South African Field ... read more

- - - UPDATE ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUS

UPDATE ON VACCINE DERIVED POLIOVIRUSES Editorial note below; full text is at http://www.who.int/wer/2012/wer8738.pdf WHO convened a meeting in May 2012 to review current understanding of VDPVs. This meeting was promptedby: the prolonged large c ... read more

NEW THIS MONDAY: FOUR ON POLIO ERADICATION

 NEW THIS MONDAY: FOUR ON POLIO   WANING INTESTINAL IMMUNITY AFTER OPV VACCINATION IN INDIA http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=2024 SUCCESSES AND SHORTCOMINGS OF POLIO ERADICATION http://www.childs ... read more

NEW THIS FRIDAY: SUCCESS AGAINST POLIO BY END 2014 ...

SUCCESS AGAINST POLIO BY END-2014 REALISTIC PROSPECT: IMB Full text of http://www.polioeradication.org/Portals/0/Document/Aboutus/Governance/IMB/8IMBMeeting/8IMB_Report_EN.pdf The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for polio eradication has un ... read more

W.H.O. ALERT: POLIOVIRUS DETECTED FROM ENVIRONMENT ...

POLIOVIRUS DETECTED FROM ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES IN ISRAEL From the W.H.O. homepage 3 June 2013 - In Israel, wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) was isolated from sewage samples collected on 9 April 2013 in Rahat, southern Israel. The virus has been de ... read more