Revealed: These Are The Polio-Free Countries, 2024
Poliovirus cases worldwide have dropped by 99.9 percent since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) began in 1988. The GPEI aims to deliver anti-polio immunization to low-income and developing nations. In the United States, polio was a massive healthcare problem in the 1950s. Paralytic poliomyelitis inflicted 20,000 patients in 1952. But...