One more year of nil case and it will be ‘Goodbye, Polio’
It is two years since India has had a polio case. One more before the country can say ‘Goodbye, Polio.’ The battle against the wild polio virus is poised interestingly in the nation that, not long ago, in 2009, accounted for nearly half the world’s polio cases. Three years of absence of polio cases, caused by the wild polio virus, coupled with intense surveillance, is essential before India can be declared polio-free, in 2014. Naveen Thacker, past president, Indian Academy of Paediatrics, who has been involved for nearly two decades in the fight against polio, says: “It is probably the biggest public health success story of this century. It was like the wild polio virus was always smarter than us.” And now, after nearly two decades, the tide has turned.
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