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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:278-279
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Infectious Diseases

Commentary: Poliomyelitis and unnecessary injections

Neal A Halsey

Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street—Room 5041, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. E-mail: nhalsey@jhsph.edu

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Although vaccines to prevent poliomyelitis have been available for 48 years, paralytic disease continues to occur in some areas, as reported by Kohler et al.1 elsewhere in this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology. Let us hope that by the 50th anniversary of the development of the first successful poliomyelitis vaccine all transmission of wild-type polioviruses will have ceased. The World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored polio eradication programme has encountered and overcome many problems as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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