A GP guide to the challenges of polio eradication
Is the end of polio in sight? Despite a decades-long international effort, several challenges stand in the way of achieving global eradication of the poliovirus
For more than 20 years, there has been a massive international effort to eradicate the polio virus. So are we getting close to succeeding?
Professor Leo Visser, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and president of the International Society of Travel Medicine, provided an update of the current challenges being faced in achieving global eradication of polio at the Southern Cross Travel Medicine Conference held in Sydney late last year.1
