polio-free

The new plan comes as a polio case is confirmed in Mogadishu, Somalia, a country which had been polio-free since 2002.

The Commission recognized that the European Region has reached a critical juncture and its polio-free status is in jeopardy.

The poliovirus can easily be imported into a polio-free country and can spread rapidly amongst unimmunized populations.

With a targeted vaccine and faster ways of tracking the virus, most countries that recently suffered outbreaks are again polio-free.

Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of CDC, said "the day the world is declared polio-free, we will all have Rotary International to thank. "

This year, Somalia is celebrating three years of being polio-free, with no cases of wild poliovirus in Somalia since 25 March 2007.

Outbreaks in countries that were previously polio-free were stopped, and no new re-infections have occurred this year.

Some polio-free countries may also require travellers from Pakistan to be immunized against polio in order to obtain an entry visa.

On 21 June, the region commemorates five years of being polio-free.

At the same time, however, the group singled out ongoing polio transmission in Nigeria as the single greatest risk to a polio-free world.

Deadline for Service Award for a Polio-free World nominations .

National health authorities are planning a response to an outbreak of wild poliovirus in Namibia, polio-free since 1996.

This represents the first importation of poliovirus in the WHO European Region since it was certified polio-free in 2002.

Its main task is to monitor the polio-free status of the region.

We are at the threshold of a polio-free world.

Indonesia had been polio-free since 1995.

In total, 18 previously polio-free countries have been re-infected since mid-2003.

Kenya has been polio-free for the last 22 years.

The risk of importations into polio-free areas remains as long as polio exists anywhere in the world.

In 2009-2010, 23 previously polio-free countries were re-infected due to imports of the virus.

This is the first outbreak of polio since the Region was certified polio-free in 2002.

Polio-free for almost three years, Somalia became re-infected last year.

Angola, polio-free since 2001, was re-infected last year by a virus from India.

The region is polio-free, and has been for ten years.

Before a WHO region can be certified polio-free, three conditions must be satisfied

Evaluation of OPV Supplementary Immunization Effect for Maintaining Polio-free Status in Hebei Province

Progress on Sustaining Polio-Free Status in Anhui

Progress on Maintaining Polio-free in Sichuan Province in 2003

Evaluation on Keeping Polio-free Status in 2003 in Fujian Province

Analysis on keeping Polio-free status in 2005 in Jiangsu Province