Cara C. Burns

Sep 16, 2024 | mdpi.com | Concepción F Estívariz |Eric Wiesen |Cara C. Burns |Nima D. Badizadegan

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Jul 21, 2023 | medscape.com | Scarlett E. Lee |Sharon Greene |Cara C. Burns |Graham F. Tallis

Abstract and Introduction Introduction Since the World Health Assembly established the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, two of the three wild poliovirus (WPV) serotypes (types 2 and 3) have been eradicated, and global WPV cases have decreased by more than 99.9%. Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only countries where indigenous WPV type 1 (WPV1) transmission has not been interrupted.