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Update on Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses-Worldwide, January 2008-June 2009
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 09/18/09
In 1988, the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate poliomyelitis worldwide. Subsequently, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative of the World Health Organization reduced the global incidence of polio associated with wild polioviruses from an estimated 350,000 cases in 125 countries in 1988 to 1,651 reported cases in 2008 and reduced the number of countries that have never interrupted WPV transmission to four. Under current WHO plans, when the goal of eradicating all WPV transmission is attained, oral poliovirus vaccine use worldwide eventually will be discontinued.
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