Open AccessSailing in Uncharted Waters: Carefully Navigating the Polio Endgame
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Miller,
T. Jacob John
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002141
Subject(s) - chess endgame , poliomyelitis , poliomyelitis eradication , disease eradication , medicine , global health , miller , perspective (graphical) , family medicine , virology , public health , biology , nursing , computer science , pathology , poliovirus , ecology , virus , disease , artificial intelligence
In a Perspective linked to the research article by Isobel Blake and colleagues, Elizabeth Miller and T. Jacob John discuss the path towards global polio eradication and the challenges, strategies, and necessary precautions around oral polio vaccine cessation.