World Polio Day
HEALTH World Polio Day marks significant milestone in India’s campaign against Polio Eradication · The country was taken off the list of Polio endemic nations by WHO earlier this year · Experts emphasize on the need for Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) to achieve Polio-Free status Mumbai, October 23, 2012: City experts say continued efforts on both a local and national level will ensure India is declared Polio-Free for the first time in 2014 . India has not reported a single case of Polio since January 2011 and will need to maintain this record until 2014 to be granted Polio-Free status. A country needs to have reported no cases of Polio for at least three years before the World Health Organization (WHO) can grant it Polio-Free status. Barring India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, all other countries around the world are Polio-Free . In February this year, India was officially struck...