Child gets oral dose of polio vaccineFLICKR, RAMESH_LALWANI
Tomorrow (January 13) will be one year since the last child infected with the poliovirus was reported in India. If no other cases turn up by this one-year mark, and if routine surveillance of sewage continues to test negative for wild polioviruses, India will be removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic—leaving only Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.
It’s been a long, winding road to the potential eradication of the virus in India, which has invested around $2 billion in the effort as well as incredible manpower. The millions of babies born each year, for one, made vaccination campaigns a staggering task. "We have to get to these children, these newborns, with vaccine faster than the wild virus can get to them," Hamid ...
