<s docid="FBIS4-67701" num="15"> Already Gujarat stands on the threshold of totally wiping it out; it is in `control grade'.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-67701" num="16"> By the end of the present century, just six years from now, the dreaded disease will be declared "eradicated," as is the goal set by the World Health Organisation and the Centre, the minister of state for health, Mr. Shaktisinh Gohil, confidently says.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-67701" num="25"> As per the survey report in June 1993, declining trends in the occurrence of poliomyelitis are being recorded at the national level, as well as in many well-performing states and within several districts of other states.</s>

<s docid="FR940126-2-00106" num="8"> Polio is very rare in our country, mostly because people are protected by polio vaccine.</s>

<s docid="FR940126-2-00106" num="40"> There is a very small chance that serious problems, even death, could occur after getting vaccines.</s>

<s docid="FR940603-2-00060" num="10"> The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to support the polio eradication initiative by providing technical, laboratory, programmatic consultants, operational and applied research, oral polio vaccine, and other services, as needed, to the governments of polio endemic countries.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-22589" num="70"> Polio -- "A countrywide inoculation campaign against polio and other preventable children's diseases was launched yesterday after polio cases, originating in Angola and affecting northwestern Namibia, were reported.</s>

<s docid="LA072890-0066" num="10"> Buoyed by substantial progress in recent months, Pan American Health Organization officials remain cautiously optimistic that they can achieve their goal of eradicating polio from the Western Hemisphere by the end of this year.</s>

<s docid="LA072890-0066" num="11"> So far this year, only three cases of the feared crippler of children have been confirmed -- one in Mexico, one in Ecuador and one in Peru.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60405" num="23"> On the basis of achieving a planned polio immunization rate of 85 percent, China in recent years has adopted a series of measures -- based on provinces and counties as units -- to accelerate the elimination of polio, and it has achieved pleasing results in the past few years.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60405" num="24"> The incidence of polio has fallen with each passing year, and no cases have occurred in the urban areas of some cities, whereas the incidence of polio has approached or achieved the lowest level in history.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60405" num="26"> However, because of China's vast territory and huge population, as well as the great differences between various places, the development of the planned polio immunization among children is imbalanced, and weak links continue to exist.</s>

<s docid="FR940425-2-00078" num="8"> (1) Plans, coordinates, directs, and participates in National Immunization Program (NIP) efforts to eradicate polio in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Regional Offices, and other Centers/Institute/Offices (CIO); (2) provides short- and long-term consultation and technical assistance to foreign countries involved in the global eradication of polio and participates in international advisory group meetings regarding polio eradication; (3) conducts large-scale clinical trials of oral and injectable poliovirus vaccines in collaboration with WHO, other national governments and international research groups; (4) designs and participates in international research projects to increase the effectiveness of polio eradication strategies; (5) develops strategies to improve the technical skills and problem-solving abilities of program managers and health care workers in other countries; (6) refines strategies developed for the eradication of polio in the Western Hemisphere for implementation in other parts of the world; (7) assist other countries in projects to improve surveillance for polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases, including development of computerized systems for disease monitoring; (8) prepares articles based on findings for publication in international professional journals and presentation at international conferences; (9) collaborates with advocacy groups, and other countries, to ensure the availability of sufficient funds to purchase an adequate supply of polio vaccine for use in polio eradication efforts.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60562" num="20"> (Maputo Radio Mozambique Network in Portuguese 1730 GMT 27 Nov 93) NAMIBIA Polio -- A minor outbreak of polio has occurred in Namibia with eight confirmed cases of the disease, currently restricted to the southern half of the country, the South African National Health Department said on 24 November.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60561" num="27"> Polio -- The Ministry of Health and Social Service on 12 November announced that ``a polio epidemic had broken out in Namibia, following eleven cases of Polio Myelitis reported to the Katutura Hospital''.</s>

<s docid="LA043090-0036" num="12"> Rare cases of paralytic polio also occur in recipients of the live-virus vaccine.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60403" num="15"> [Text] China has set 1995 as the target year to eradicate polio but its efforts have been hampered by the country's large size and an increasingly mobile population, an official said yesterday.</s>

<s docid="FT931-7060" num="12"> By the end of 1990, the programme had helped inoculate 80 per cent of the world's children against these diseases.</s>

<s docid="FT931-7060" num="13"> The target is 90 per cent by 2000.</s>

<s docid="FT931-7060" num="39"> Outbreaks of tuberculosis and polio have occurred because of poorly prepared vaccines.</s>

<s docid="FT931-11085" num="28"> It has already reached more than 80 per cent of children, but the rest live in the poorest countries where disease is most prevalent.</s>

<s docid="FT931-11085" num="29"> Universal immunisation 'may be almost impossible', says one official.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-45844" num="32"> Last year just 653 polio cases were reported, the lowest figure in Chinese history.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60404" num="15"> [Text] About 100 million children in hundreds of thousands of villages and towns across China will be inoculated against polio beginning on Sunday in the biggest mass immunization programme the world has ever seen.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-60404" num="21"> However, without a mass immunization programme, the country is still vulnerable to the possibility of another upswing in polio cases.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-61373" num="58"> The Ministry of Health is facing the persistent need to sharply reduce the shortage of diphtheria, poliomyelitis, measles, and tuberculosis vaccines, and those of other infectious diseases, and to improve the quality of those vaccines.</s>

<s docid="LA082490-0065" num="11"> In 1990, only four new cases have been discovered in the hemisphere, said Dr. Ciro de Quadros, author of the CDC report.</s>

<s docid="LA082490-0065" num="12"> "We are cautiously optimistic, but all indications are that we are going to totally eradicate this virus in the next few months," he said.</s>

<s docid="LA100189-0047" num="15"> Some 60% of the world's children are now vaccinated against polio, tetanus, measles, diphtheria, pertussis and tuberculosis, but the diseases still kill almost 3 million children each year.</s>

<s docid="LA100189-0047" num="25"> Nakajima notes in his report the progress that has been made: Smallpox has been eliminated, and polio is likely to be eradicated by the end of the century.</s>

