{"id":62605,"date":"2024-03-16T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/mar\/16\/global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding"},"modified":"2024-03-16T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T13:00:05","slug":"global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62605","title":{"rendered":"Global eradication of polio \u2018tantalisingly close\u2019 with UK urged to keep up funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>The world is \u201ctantalisingly close\u201d to eradicating polio \u2013 with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. But experts warn that vaccination efforts \u2013 and funding \u2013 must not falter if the world is to rid itself of a human infectious disease for the <a href=\"https:\/\/asm.org\/articles\/2020\/march\/disease-eradication-what-does-it-take-to-wipe-out\">second time in history<\/a>, after smallpox.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no reported cases of wild polio infection in people for the last 19 weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/polioeradication.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/weekly-polio-analyses-WPV-20240305.pdf\">Figures from the World Health Organization<\/a> reveal that the last confirmed cases were on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan in October and September 2023 respectively; these are the last nations on Earth where polio is endemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/mar\/16\/global-eradication-of-polio-tantalisingly-close-with-uk-urged-to-keep-up-funding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and AfghanistanThe world is \u201ctantalisingly close\u201d to eradicating polio \u2013 with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,346,914,2315,60,900,79,61,565,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medicine","category-pakistan","category-polio","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62606,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62605\/revisions\/62606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}