Let Fast Completed Polio, WHO Will Announce Global Emergency

Eradication of polio have been initiated since 1988 by the World Health Organization or WHO. However, because up to now is still endemic in three countries, WHO will set the global state of emergency for polio polio quickly vanished as smallpox.


Although the target had previously been completed in 2000, polio is still prevalent today in the three countries, namely Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. That is, the third case in this country can still be said to be very high and is thought to trigger the failure of vaccination programs.


Earlier, India on the list of endemic countries, but officially was dropped on February 25, 2012 after the last one year no new cases were found. Unfortunately, several countries including China, which had previously been declared polio-free, recently re-discovered a new case.



With these conditions, efforts to accelerate polio eradication should be done. Because if not, it is estimated there will be 20,000 children who will become disabled in the next ten years.


"The eradication of polio are now at the tipping point between success and failure," said Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General through a statement delivered at the conference in Geneva, as quoted by Reuters.


Although not completely successful until complete, the eradication of polio is already showing results. If at first proclaimed in 1988 by polio paralysis figure reached 350,000 cases / year, in the year 2010 only 1352 cases / year.


If the eradication of polio is accelerated through a global emergency status is successful, then the disease will be the second disease after smallpox (smallpox) that could eventually be eradicated completely.


Polio is a disease that is triggered by a virus and attacks the nervous system. In just a few hours after infection, patients may experience total paralysis. Of the 200 people who are infected and become paralyzed, there is one less that the paralysis is permanent.


Polio infection is often fatal, in the sense that the sufferer can be up to death. Patients who died of polio generally suffer from respiratory failure, because the muscles paralyzed his lungs involved