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Despite successful vaccination campaigns eradicating polio in many countries, a large number of polio survivors are now experiencing new symptoms known as post-polio syndrome (PPS).
Highlights the ongoing relevance of polio for health professionals due to the emergence of post-polio syndrome in survivors.
Before the Global Polio Eradication Initiative launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988, polio was endemic in 125 countries on five continents, paralysing more than 1 000 children every day (WHO, 2009a). Since then the numbers of new acquisitions have been reduced worldwide by 99%, with just 1 315 reported cases at the end of 2007 (WHO, 2009b). Within the United Kingdom (UK) and many other countries successful vaccination campaigns have eradicated polio and polio is typically seen as a disease of the past. Unfortunately, this has proved not to be the case for a large number of polio survivors who are now experiencing the constellation of new symptoms that can occur, known as post-polio syndrome (PPS).
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Alexandra Curtis (2009) conducted a review in Post-polio syndrome (PPS). Despite successful vaccination campaigns eradicating polio in many countries, a large number of polio survivors are now experiencing new symptoms known as post-polio syndrome (PPS).
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