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World Polio Day: Newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide
•Health officials are campaigning to eliminate all oral vaccines and rely on injected vaccines containing killed virus.
World Polio Day: Why the disease persists, 18 years after the WHO deadline to eradicate it
Bhavya •In 1988, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced an ambitious campaign to rid the world of polio by 2000. It’s 2018, and polio still persists in pockets, including cases of vaccine-derived polio in India.