Countries like the United States, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Switzerland have already vaccinated many millions of adolescents and their experience will guide countries that follow suit.
- Head, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Outbreaks of polio have become a thing of the past, told to us by our grandparents, only because of vaccination.
Now is not the time to ease up the prevention effort, or decades of progress could be undone.
The global target to eradicate polio is being missed because a number of countries are struggling to reach high vaccine coverage.
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