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Surveillance Systems to Track Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, 2014–2015 Cynthia J. Snider, PhD1; Ousmane M. Diop, PhD2; Cara C. Burns, PhD3; Rudolph H. Tangermann, MD2; Steven G.F. Wassilak, MD1
Global efforts to eradicate polio began in 1988, and poliofree certification has been achieved in four of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions. Nigeria was removed from WHO’s list of countries with endemic polio in September 2015, achieving an important milestone toward interruption of wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission in the African Region (1). Afghanistan and Pakistan, both in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, were the only countries to report WPV cases in 2015. Previously reported outbreaks caused by WPV importation during 2013–2014 have ended (2,3). The primary means for detecting poliovirus transmission is surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) among children aged
