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Poliomyelitis - A World Geography: Emergence to Eradication (Hardcover)
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Poliomyelitis - A World Geography: Emergence to Eradication (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
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For parents, few infections scored higher than poliomyelitis on the
'dread' factor from the early years of the twentieth century as
each successive wave of the disease outdid its predecessor in the
number of children it crippled and killed. But, from the 1950s,
this picture abruptly changed when preventive vaccines were
developed which have brought the disease to the edge of global
eradication. Part I, Epidemic Emergence, 1881-1920, looks at the
transition from endemic to epidemic poliomyelitis in Europe and the
United States. Part II, Global Expansion, 1921-55, covers the
pre-vaccination period of epidemic poliomyelitis at world,
continental and island scales. Part III, Global Retreat, 1955-88,
focuses upon the control of poliomyelitis by mass vaccination
campaigns. Part IV, Global Eradication, concludes the book by
focusing upon the road to eradication, to which the Forty-first
World Health Assembly committed in 1988. And so, at the beginning
of a new millennium, poliomyelitis looks set to be the first
disease since smallpox in 1979 to be eradicated by direct human
intervention, with the interruption of wild poliovirus transmission
expected in 2005. The evolution of poliomyelitis to global
epidemiological significance from the 1920s marks it out as one of
the world's major emergent infections of the twentieth century.
What causes diseases to wax and wane in time and space is a theme
of contemporary scientific interest as we seek to understand the
appearance of new conditions such as Ebola fever, Legionnaires'
disease, and HIV, and this book contributes to our comprehension of
likely causes.
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