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Accepted: 29 Jan 2025
https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.4.2500076
Rendi-Wagner Pamela, Kluge Hans.
(There is no abstract available.)
Polio has threatened the health and wellbeing of children for centuries, but today it is largely a forgotten disease for the vast majority of people living in Europe. Polio vaccination has undeniably been one of the most successful public health interventions in Europe and worldwide. Thanks to successful immunisation programmes, surveillance and outbreak response, Europe was declared free of endemic polio in 2002 and has since maintained this status every year [1].
Nonetheless, until global eradication is achieved and as long as poliovirus is circulating anywhere, importations into Europe are inevitable. Data from poliovirus surveillance systems show that pathogenic poliovirus was detected in at least one of the countries in Europe in every year from 2015 through 2022 [2].
It is paramount that we see every importation of any harmful poliovirus into Europe as a wake-up call – polio may be forgotten by many, but it is not gone, and it still poses a risk to the unvaccinated in Europe and every other region in the world. ...
https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.4.2500076
Rendi-Wagner Pamela, Kluge Hans.
(There is no abstract available.)
Polio has threatened the health and wellbeing of children for centuries, but today it is largely a forgotten disease for the vast majority of people living in Europe. Polio vaccination has undeniably been one of the most successful public health interventions in Europe and worldwide. Thanks to successful immunisation programmes, surveillance and outbreak response, Europe was declared free of endemic polio in 2002 and has since maintained this status every year [1].
Nonetheless, until global eradication is achieved and as long as poliovirus is circulating anywhere, importations into Europe are inevitable. Data from poliovirus surveillance systems show that pathogenic poliovirus was detected in at least one of the countries in Europe in every year from 2015 through 2022 [2].
It is paramount that we see every importation of any harmful poliovirus into Europe as a wake-up call – polio may be forgotten by many, but it is not gone, and it still poses a risk to the unvaccinated in Europe and every other region in the world. ...