India Winning Fight Against Polio
Cited: CNN
Experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) are urging a cautious but optimistic view of India’s milestone in its fight against polio – no new cases in a full year. The last case of this killer disease occurred in a young girl in the western side of the state of Bengal in January 2011. In not having any reported cases of polio in the last year India moves out of the company of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria, countries where polio is still prevalent. Leaders of India’s health organizations are cautious to point out that just because there haven’t been any new reported cases over the last twelve months that doesn’t mean that the virus can’t be re-imported into India or that there may still be other new cases out there that haven’t been reported.
India won’t be certified as “polio-free” until there have been no reported cases for another two years, however, officials are happy to see that the steps that they took toward eradicating polio from India are finally starting to bear fruit. Polio is a disease that effected even wealthy nations up until the 1950′s. The polio virus attacks the nervous system and is spread in areas with poor sanitation, a factor the helped to keep the disease so prevalent in Third World countries for so much longer than in developed nations.
The success in combating polio in India is the result of a massive effort costing billions of dollars to have all of India’s children immunized against the virus. To accomplish this unprecedented undertaking, India used mobile vaccination teams that tracked children down at bus stops, train stations, and in marketplaces.
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My take:
To know that there is a cure for a disease like polio and that so many children still contract this deadly disease is heartbreaking. It is gratifying to see that India made it a mission from which there was no losing it making sure that all of its children were vaccinated and now, hopefully they are rid of this disease. This government action is so much more productive than building nuclear weapons and fighting with neighbors.
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