The Global Polio Eradication Initiatives: From Past to Present

Authors

  • Shazia Tabassum Hakim Jinnah University for Women, Karachi
  • Sayyada Ghuffrana Nadeem Jinnah University for Women, Karachi
  • Shaista Malik Jinnah University for Women, Karachi
  • Urooj Javed Jinnah University for Women, Karachi
  • Abdul Basit Khan PCSIR Labs. Complex, Off University Road, Karachi

Abstract

The war against infections is one that has been remuneration all through the history of human. In this centuries-long effort the worldwide population has prepared remarkable advancement in stopping infections, therapeutic infections, and enlarging living expectancies. Up till now for all our successes, only once in history 30 years ago, with smallpox made completely eliminate an infection from the earth. Now a days we are on the entrance of eradicating the earth of polio an infection able of crippling and killing many children. The story of polio is both lengthy and hesitant. The arrival of efficient vaccines in the 1950s facilitated polio prevention, and the resultant struggles were victorious wildly, however confronts still continue (Plan, 2011).

Author Biographies

Shazia Tabassum Hakim, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi

Virology and Tissue culture Laboratory, Department Of Microbiology

Sayyada Ghuffrana Nadeem, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi

Medical Mycology Research and Reference Laboratory

Shaista Malik, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi

Virology and Tissue culture Laboratory, Department Of Microbiology

Urooj Javed, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi

Medical Mycology Research and Reference Laboratory, Department of Microbiology

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Published

2012-07-15

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2012): Volume 3 (2), July 2012

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