polio Maksud & Definisi

Contoh polio

• Similarly, and as explained in section 7, the oral polio vaccine can cause paralysis in a very small percentage of cases.

• Our analysis yields a cost-benefit rule for eradication, which we apply to the current initiative to eradicate polio.

• If the pathologies in question were tuberculosis or polio, we would not be claiming much success on the basis of the results of these campaigns.

• But polio eradication is more complicated than that.

• This suggests that the transmission of polio from vaccine recipients t o their contacts is not extensive.

• Although the smallpox virus is much larger than polio, the technical feasibility of artificially synthesizing smallpox is perhaps dubious.

• We find that polio eradication would be economically desirable - provided, that is, that eradiation of this disease were technically feasible.

• We derive a cost-benefit rule for optimal eradication, and demonstrate its utility by applying it to the current global initiative to eradicate polio.