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...

-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”...

“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,...

India has not recorded a single case of polio in 12 months - the longest ever. However, the Indian strain of wild poliovirus imported by several other countries like Angola, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Bangladesh and Namibia has caused multiple outbreaks in the last decade. The strain crippling children in Congo- 92 cases in 2011 - also came from India. "India exported poliovirus to other countries in the past and is now at risk of...

India has been free of New cases of polio for a year, putting it on track to end its status as a country where the virus is endemic, officials say. In a few weeks, if pending samples test negative for the virus, India will be officially regarded as free from polio for the first time in its history. The World Health Organisation described this as a critical milestone. India was once seen as...