Polio transmission was supposed to end by 2023. A new report explains why it won’t.
In 2023 alone, there have been as many as 240 children in a couple of dozen countries paralyzed by vaccine-derived polioviruses.
The latest goal for the end of polio transmission will almost certainly not be met, according to a frank and concerning report about the future of the decades-long polio eradication effort that was released this week.
After having missed multiple deadlines for ending polio transmission, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative had set 2023 as the year when both wild polio viruses would finally be snuffed out and so-called vaccine-derived viruses would also be stopped, putting an end to a family of viruses that have paralyzed children for centuries.
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