Informative Polio Resources
Websites For Products & Services to Assist You and Information to Learn From
The links for these Websites were updated and tested February 27, 2024
ORGANIZATION
Comment: I would rate this as "Excellent"
Updated: August 5, 2021
Excerpt from the Website:
"Since 1988, we've seen a worldwide reduction in polio cases of 99.9%. For more than three years, we've seen wild polio cases in only two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Excerpt from Post-Polio Health ABOUT:
"Post-Polio Health International’s mission is to collect, preserve and make available research and knowledge to promote the well-being and independence of polio survivors, home ventilator users, their caregivers and families, and to support the health professionals who treat them."
Comment:
I would rate this site "Excellent "
ADDED: August 5, 2012
Excerpt from their About page:
"Post-Polio Health International (PHI), incorporated as a 501(c)3 – a non-profit – in 1960, also "does business as" International Ventilator Users Network (IVUN). Post-Polio Health International is governed by a Board of Directors and has a paid staff of two. Accounting, design and editorial services are provided by independent contractors."
ORGANIZATION
Excerpt from their Website: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative
"GPEI is a public-private partnership led by national governments with six partners – the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the vaccine alliance. Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide."
Comment: I would personally rate this Website as "Excellent"
Added: August 5, 2021
Excerpt from their website:
"Polio remains endemic in two countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan. Until poliovirus transmission is interrupted in these countries, all countries remain at risk of importation of polio, especially vulnerable countries with weak public health and immunization services and travel or trade links to endemic countries."
Centers for Decease Control
(Polio)
Added here on August 5, 2021
Excerpt from CDC Website :
"Polio was once one of the most feared diseases in the U.S. In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis each year. Following introduction of vaccines—specifically, trivalent inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) in 1955 and trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in 1963—the number of polio cases fell rapidly to less than 100 in the 1960s and fewer than 10 in the 1970s."