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World Polio Day – October 24
October 27 , 2018
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- The World Polio Day is observed annually across world on 24 October to create awareness about hazards of the crippling Polio disease.
- The theme for World Polio Day 2018 is 'End Polio Now'.
- The occasion commemorates the birth of American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk, who discovered the first successful vaccine (IPV) for poliomyelitis or polio in 1955.
- As per WHO, ‘Global Polio Eradication Initiative’ (Established in 1988) has eradicated Polio by 99%.
- As of today, only 3 countries in the world, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria have still reported the disease.
- There are 2 forms of vaccine available to eradicate polio.
- Oral polio vaccine (OPV) and
- Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV)
- OPV was developed by Albert Sabin.
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