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Global health officials agree that eradicating polio isn\u2019t a \u201cdone deal.\u201d In fact, in 1999 the world was on track to defeat polio in its entirety by 2000, but due to commercial concerns at the time, namely vaccination manufacturers decreasing production for fear that no one would buy it after 2000, polio remains a leading concern with cases still prevalent in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria. During the 2016 World Health Summit<\/a><\/strong>, held in Berlin over the weekend, officials expressed their concern that we as a world may never fully eradicate polio unless we learn from our mistakes and stay focused. \u201cWe need to learn the lessons from polio so we know how and when to work in these insecure areas,\u201d says Matshidiso R. Moeti, the WHO’s regional director for Africa. \u201cAnd we need to make sure eradicating polio isn\u2019t just a commitment of a country’s health minister, but also of its finance minister.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Global health officials agree that eradicating polio isn\u2019t a \u201cdone deal.\u201d In fact, in 1999 the world was on track to defeat polio in its entirety by 2000, but due to commercial concerns at the time, namely vaccination manufacturers decreasing production for fear that no one would buy it after 2000, polio remains a leading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat If We Fail to Eradicate Polio? - Beyond Polio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpolio.org\/?p=863\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What If We Fail to Eradicate Polio? 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