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So close: remaining challenges to eradicating polio

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, March 2016
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Title
So close: remaining challenges to eradicating polio
Published in
BMC Medicine, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0594-6
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Authors

Michael J. Toole

Abstract

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, launched in 1988, is close to achieving its goal. In 2015, reported cases of wild poliovirus were limited to just two countries - Afghanistan and Pakistan. Africa has been polio-free for more than 18 months. Remaining barriers to global eradication include insecurity in areas such as Northwest Pakistan and Eastern and Southern Afghanistan, where polio cases continue to be reported. Hostility to vaccination is either based on extreme ideologies, such as in Pakistan, vaccination fatigue by parents whose children have received more than 15 doses, and misunderstandings about the vaccine's safety and effectiveness such as in Ukraine. A further challenge is continued circulation of vaccine-derived poliovirus in populations with low immunity, with 28 cases reported in 2015 in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Ukraine, Laos, and Myanmar. This paper summarizes the current epidemiology of wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus, and describes the remaining challenges to eradication and innovative approaches being taken to overcome them.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Unknown 128 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 31%
Student > Bachelor 29 22%
Researcher 10 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Other 6 5%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 25 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 8%
Social Sciences 9 7%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 30 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 December 2021.
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#3,331,961
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,907
of 3,569 outputs
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#54,391
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#33
of 56 outputs
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