Prognosis for the Future
How is this disease likely to affect us in the future? Will we be able to eradicate (destroy) it, or will it continue to threaten humans?
- A lot of health groups are trying to wipe out polio throughout the world and they have done a lot of progress so far
- Several countries still have polio circulating
- If the virus reaches a country where not enough people have been immunized, it could spread from person to person very fast
- Until it has been eliminated worldwide, it is important to continue vaccinating kids against polio
- In order for polio to be considered totally eradicated from the face of the earth, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has established specific requirements
- In order for polio to be considered totally eradicated from the face of the earth, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has established specific requirements such as,
- Containment of the virus. National authorities in all countries surveyed laboratories to identify those with wild poliovirus infectious or potentially infectious material and encourage destruction of all unneeded materials. National authorities develop a national inventory of all laboratories with wild poliovirus materials. Member states begin planning for implementation of biosafety requirement for the post-eradication face
- Certifications. This is the independent verification of wild poliovirus eradications
- Establish a post-eradication immunization policy
- Polio will most likely not continue to threaten humans because it is continuing to disappear in countries that may have had big outbreaks. Also the virus is not spreading to many countries that haven’t had the virus before or not going back to the countries that had the virus before.
- Several countries still have polio circulating
- If the virus reaches a country where not enough people have been immunized, it could spread from person to person very fast
- Until it has been eliminated worldwide, it is important to continue vaccinating kids against polio
- In order for polio to be considered totally eradicated from the face of the earth, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has established specific requirements
- In order for polio to be considered totally eradicated from the face of the earth, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has established specific requirements such as,
- Containment of the virus. National authorities in all countries surveyed laboratories to identify those with wild poliovirus infectious or potentially infectious material and encourage destruction of all unneeded materials. National authorities develop a national inventory of all laboratories with wild poliovirus materials. Member states begin planning for implementation of biosafety requirement for the post-eradication face
- Certifications. This is the independent verification of wild poliovirus eradications
- Establish a post-eradication immunization policy
- Polio will most likely not continue to threaten humans because it is continuing to disappear in countries that may have had big outbreaks. Also the virus is not spreading to many countries that haven’t had the virus before or not going back to the countries that had the virus before.