0 a serious infectious disease that can cause permanent paralysis (= being unable to move the body): --
Now 95% of babies are immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella.
a polio vaccination programme
1 a serious, infectious disease of the nerves of the spine (= row of bones in the back) that can cause temporary or permanent paralysis (= inability to move the body) --
It is likely that this type of vaccine will assume a greater prominence in the future as the worldwide eradication of polio approaches.
To know whether polio eradication is optimal, we need to ask if conditions like (21) and (23) hold for polio.
Given this decision, rich countries will not benefit substantially from polio eradication.
Our analysis is unable to determine whether health outcomes would improve if the money spent on polio eradication was spent instead on other health interventions.
We note that money spent on polio eradication has an opportunity cost.
Investigators also arranged for stool specimen collection and shipment to the national polio laboratory network for poliovirus detection and identification.
This program has made vaccines against common childhood infections such as measles and polio available to countries where local governmental resources simply cannot do so.
We derive a cost-benefit rule for optimal eradication, and demonstrate its utility by applying it to the current global initiative to eradicate polio.
