Sunday, January 12, 2014

Polio Free India

World health organization WHO on 13.01.2014
declared India a polio free country.

India has not reported a case of polio, after a two-year-old girl was paralyzed by polio in the Howrah district of West Bengal on 13 January 2011. The last reported case of Ruksha Shah, who just has a slight limp, is the only remnant of the polio infection that ravaged her in 2011. The disease left her right leg a little shorter and weaker. 
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According to WHO reports, India is one of the largest donors to polio eradication, and till 2013, India had contributed US$2 billion towards polio eradication programmes.
WHO officials today declared India polio-free on 13 January 2014, which means the virus has died in the environment. New cases, if any, would be caused by the infection coming in another country.
It is indeed seen has a victory for the fight against polio, as in 2009 India had 50 percent share in the world's polio cases. With India off the list, there are only three more countries in the world which are still polio-endemic - Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.
A country that had 150,000 polio cases in 1985 completely ridding out the virus is indeed a milestone. However, the country's polio eradication programme will have to stay on track, as there are still places where immunization programmes are yet to be accepted by local communities.
Polio Fact-sheet India(As per WHO)
 Cases in 2011: 1 (last case 13 January 2011)
 Cases in 2009: 741
 Cases in 1991: 6,028
 Cases in 1985: 150,000
 Last wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case: 13 January 2011, Howrah, West Bengal
 Last wild poliovirus type 2 (WPV2) case: October 1999, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
 Last wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) case: 22 October 2010, Pakur, Jharkhand
 Last positive case from monthly environmental sewage sampling (conducted in Delhi, Mumbai and Patna): November 2010, Mumbai 




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