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100			_aJohn, T. Jacob
245			_aCan the polio elimination success story breed more successes in India?
260			_c2014
300			_ap.10-14.
362			_a5 Apr
520			_aOvercoming formidable biological and sociocultural barriers, India eliminated wild polioviruses from its territory in January 2011. Looking back, it is obvious that the best policy would have been to introduce the inactivated poliovirus vaccine to prevent polio in every vaccinated child, and to use oral poliovirus vaccine by pulse campaigns to eliminate WPVs rapidly. This would have eliminated polio decades ago. Now that WPVs have been eliminated, iv must be introduced as a prelude to withdrawing OPV. The road ahead is bumpy, but with the important lessons learnt so far, India can no longer pretend that it is too difficult to design a permanent public health infrastructure to control other communicable and non-communicable diseases. - Reproduced.
650			_aPolio - India
650			_aPolio
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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999			_c103480 _d103480