Polio Eradication Update
Posted by Tony Ciancimino
on Mar 21, 2011
2011 YTD Polio Cases Worldwide: 34
You can track polio cases worldwide and learn how Rotary’s commitment to eradicate polio will be successful. There were 34 cases worldwide in January and February. The his-torically polio-endemic states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India have not seen a case in more than six months. The dramatic re-duction in cases in this region is largely the result of the introduction of bivalent oral polio vaccine.
In all of 2010 there were 232 cases in the endemic countries (Pakistan 144, India 42, Afghanistan 25 and Nigeria 21) and 743 cases in the non-endemic countries.