What you do not know about the polio virus ... its transmission methods, strains and its relationship to Corona

The World Health Organization revealed that polio is a highly contagious viral disease that affects children under the age of five. The virus is transmitted from one child to another and is spread mainly through the mouth or feces, and to a lesser extent, through a common means "such as contaminated water or food" and it multiplies. In the intestine, where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis.

In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution to eradicate polio worldwide, on the occasion of the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, led by national governments, the World Health Organization, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and UNICEF, and later joined it The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Gavi Foundation, the Vaccine Alliance.

The organization said, wild poliovirus cases have decreased by more than 99% since 1988, from about 350,000 cases in more than 125 endemic countries to 175 reported cases in 2019.

Of the three strains of wild poliovirus (Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3), the World Health Organization said, type 2 wild poliovirus was eliminated in 1999 and no case of type 3 wild poliovirus has been found since The last reported case in Nigeria was in November 2012, both strains have been formally certified as eradicated globally, as of 2020, wild type 1 wild poliovirus is infecting two countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Polio eradication strategies work when fully implemented. This is clearly demonstrated by India’s success in stopping polio in January 2011, in the most technically challenging setting, issuing a polio-free certification for the entire WHO Southeast Asia region in March 2014.

In the beginning of February 2021, the Director-General of the World Health Organization held the 27th meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations, on the international spread of the polio virus, in the presence of the committee members and advisors via video link, with the support of the WHO Secretariat, the Emergency Committee reviewed the data on the polio virus Wild virus (WPV1) and diffuse vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) and the following States Parties to the International Health Regulations provided an update in a videoconference on the current situation in their countries: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran Liberia, Madagascar, Mali. And Sierra Leone, Pakistan and Tajikistan.