While one year has passed without Polio caused by natural Poliovirus, we can claim complete eradication only after we ensure the absence of wild and vaccine Polioviruses in the population. Today, India passes one whole year without Polio caused by natural (wild) Poliovirus — a major milestone towards Polio eradication. This spells relief from an agonising decade of wild Polioviruses refusing to surrender. Many experts believed that India posed the greatest...

-PTI The United Nations and leading world organizations celebrated India’s first Polio free year and termed it as a major milestone in their fight against this dreaded disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, termed it as the “greatest public health achievement” of India, the Bill Gates, of Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation described it as a major milestone in the global fight against Polio. “This is a major milestone in...

“Only one third of the journey has been completed” The last case of wild Polio virus reported in India was exactly one year ago, on January 13, when stool samples showed that 18-month-old Rukhsar Khatoon in West Bengal had Polio. She has since recovered, but it is the progress of whittling down from the largest number of cases in the world to zero that is fascinating to public health experts globally. Clearly,...

-Reuters India is about to hit a milestone in its battle to eradicate the Polio virus with no new cases reported in the past year, the country’s health minister said today, a dramatic drop from being the country worst-affected by the crippling disease. The last case was detected on January 13 in a two-year-old girl in Howrah. A full year without any new cases means India will no longer be classed as “Polio-endemic”...

Mass public campaign a success but experts warn of need for continued vigilance Not even superstition can render this Friday the 13th unlucky for India. Today, the nation will reach a major milestone in the history of Polio eradication – a year without any case of wild Polio being recorded. For a nation that notoriously had, only two years ago, the largest number of Polio cases in the world (741), this...