2023-10-24 08:00:04
On the occasion of International Polio Day, we take stock of this viral disease, which mainly affects children under the age of five. Very contagious, it is caused by the poliovirus which invades the nervous system and can, in just a few hours, cause irreversible paralysis.
Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and in particular thanks to vaccination, the number of polio cases has fallen by 99% worldwide. How to eradicate the disease? Where is vaccination in the world? How do we live with polio?
- Francis Delpeyroux, guest researcher at the Pasteur Institutemember of the National Polio Eradication Certification Commission. Former research director of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) at the Institut Pasteur and former head of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Enterovirus Research.
- Pr Nicaise AKA, epidemiologist, vaccination expert. Head of the epidemiological surveillance department at the Directorate of Coordination of the Expanded Vaccination Program. Head of the Polio Emergency Response Coordination Unit in Côte d’Ivoire. Associate lecturer in Public Health, epidemiology option, at Félix Houphouët Boigny Universityin Abidjan.
- Felix Ackebo, Representative UNICEF Guineaon the polio epidemic in Guinea
- Robert CORDIERPresident of Polio-France
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