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Vaccine-based eradication programs for smallpox and polio (two of seven global programs) succeeded through surveillance and outreach, but ignoring a research agenda for polio could be a fatal error.
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Highlights the critical need for a research agenda in the polio eradication program, drawing lessons from the successful smallpox campaign.
Of seven global eradication programs this century, only two have relied primarily on vaccines for control measures - those against smallpox and poliomyelitis. Smallpox is history and polio could possibly achieve a similar status within the next decade. The hallmarks of these successful programs were surveillance and community outreach and involvement. However, a research agenda, so crucial to smallpox eradication, has largely been ignored or dismissed by polio program managers. This could prove to be a serious, even fatal error.
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D. A. Henderson (1999) conducted a review in Smallpox and poliomyelitis. Vaccine-based eradication programs was evaluated. Vaccine-based eradication programs for smallpox and polio (two of seven global programs) succeeded through surveillance and outreach, but ignoring a research agenda for polio could be a fatal error.
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