This disease affects children under the age of five first class. Lead one case out of 200 cases of infection of the disease to an incurable paralysis. And and find that between 5% and 10% of people with paralysis due to stop their breathing muscles become immobilized. The number of polio cases since 1988, by more than 99%, it is estimated that number to drop from about 350 000 cases in that year to 223 cases reported in 2012. The reduction is the result of efforts made at the global level in order to eradicate the disease. In 2013 no longer polio endemic only three countries in the world (Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan), after he was endemic in more than 125 countries in 1988. As long as a single child remains infected with poliovirus, children in all countries are at risk of contracting the disease. May result in failure to eradicate polio from these strongholds to come that are still infected by the injury for about 000 200 new cases permeated throughout the world within ten years. In most countries, the global effort to eradicate polio area to increase the ability to respond to other infectious diseases by building effective surveillance and immunization. Poliomyelitis and its symptoms Polio is highly infectious viral disease invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The virus enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine. The Initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiff neck and pain in the limbs. And lead one case out of 200 cases of infection of the disease to an incurable paralysis (usually affects the legs). And and find that between 5% and 10% of those infected have died due to paralysis stop their breathing muscles become immobilized. The groups most at risk of infection This disease affects children under the age of five first class. Disease prevention There is no cure for polio, but it can not be prevented only. Polio vaccine, given multiple times, can protect a child from the evil of the disease for life. The number of cases in the world Murr Z The number of polio cases since 1988, by more than 99%, it is estimated that number to drop from about 350 000 cases in more than 125 countries Mootoona disease in a timely manner to the 223 cases reported in 2012. In 2013, the disease is no longer endemic in only some areas of the three countries in the world it is still endemic - a smaller geographical area in recorded history - and has been reducing the number of cases of wild poliovirus type 3 to their lowest levels ever. The global initiative to eradicate polio Launch Initiative In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution Forty-first to eradicate polio worldwide. This has led to the launch of the global initiative to eradicate polio, sponsored by national governments and the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF, with the support of key partners, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The launch of the initiative after the certification of the eradication of smallpox in 1980, and the progress made during the eighties towards elimination of the poliovirus in the Americas, and Rotary Internationals commitment to mobilize the necessary funds to protect all children from the disease. Progress Overall, saw the number of cases of disease has fallen by over 99% since the launch of the global initiative to eradicate polio. In 2013, the disease is no longer endemic in only three countries in the world, namely: Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. And in 1994 was officially certified on the free territory of the Americas of the Organization of polio, followed by the Western Pacific Region in 2000, then the European territory of the organization in June 2002. And unsuccessful (since 1999) to stop the transmission of type 2 wild poliovirus with three species (1, 2 and 3). And today more than 10 million the number of children who walk on the legs of those who were paralyzed Sinkpon otherwise. Thanks to give vitamin A systematically during activities immunize children against polio, was to avoid mortality estimated number of more than 1.5 million deaths. Opportunities and risks: emergency approach Aware of all the opportunities epidemiological available and major risks of failure are likely, the World Health Assembly in May / May 2012 passed a resolution declaring that the complete eradication of polio represents the process of software pressing for global public health and asked for a comprehensive strategy to run the last of polio eradication through 2018 In order to secure a world free from polio. Later, launched endemic countries remaining three action plans of national emergency against polio, which each supervised by a head of state, and agencies participating in the global initiative to eradicate polio and also set up operations at the level of emergency preparedness, and work under the supervision of the Global Plan of Action Emergency 2012 - 2013. With the beginning of 2013, will consider the impact of these approaches to the emergency, in terms of the decline in the number of cases reported in fewer areas and fewer countries than at any time previously. Since then, it has been preparing the new strategic plan for the eradication of polio and the last half of the 2013-2018 eradicated in consultation with the countries affected by polio, and the concerned parties, donors, partners, and advisory bodies, national and international. The new plan was presented in a global vaccine summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, at the end of April / April 2013. It is the first plan to eliminate all types of polio at the same time - whether caused by wild polio virus or virus-derived polio vaccine. It was explained by world leaders and the men of charity confidence in the plan to pledge three-quarters of the expected costs of the plan, amounting to 5.5 billion dollars over six years. They also called for additional donors commitment to provide an additional $ 1.5 billion in order to secure world free of polio consistently. Future benefits of polio eradication Once polio eradication, the world can celebrate the successful delivery of a major global public good benefiting all people equally, regardless of where they live. Economic modeling has been discovered that polio eradication will save at least U.S. $ 40-50 billion over the next twenty years, mostly in low-income countries. More importantly, this success means not suffering any child again from the terrible effects of the injury paralyzed for life as a result of the polio virus. For further information, please contact: Media center WHO Telephone: +41 22 791 2222 E-mail address: [email protected]
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