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The result of the move request was: Not Moved - strong arguments for both, but WP:AT and WP:NCMED hold sway here. The suggestion to revist NCMED on issues like this is however a good one. Mike Cline ( talk) 12:07, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Poliomyelitis →
Polio – Per
WP:COMMONNAME, "Polio" is far more commonly used than "Poliomyelitis". for example, see
this Google Trends graph. Thus I believe this article should be moved to the common name of Polio.
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"The article title should be the scientific or recognised medical name that is most commonly used in recent, high-quality, English-language medical sources, rather than a lay term (unscientific or slang name) [1] or a historical eponym that has been superseded. [2]"-- RexxS ( talk) 20:11, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
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"sore throat". Why does this article need protection? 2604:2000:71E7:8D00:4D50:36DE:8FF6:7554 ( talk) 00:28, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Goes like this:
That's not right. The fact that many people have minor symptoms or have no symptoms at all is not essential to the basic description of the illness. It is (or was) known and significant for its major debilitating effects and lethality. The intro should not begin with what is effectively a footnote. GregorB ( talk) 12:12, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
The disease still occurs. And yes we often do emphasis disease content rather than historical content. Many lay people know about it in the countries where it still occurs because of the campaigns that are working to eradicate the disease. We are a global encyclopedia and not just for people from the USA. I agree that when the disease is eradicated we should change the layout of the article and the lead. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 09:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
The lead is written to reflect the body of the text. It also follows the ordering of the body of the text. There is nothing wrong with this. We do it for 100s of disease related articles.
I am not sure if you are trying to eliminate a discussion of symptoms from the lead or not? But if that is your goal I oppose it. The disease still occurrs in countries were 100s of millions of people live. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 11:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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I'm taking issue with the statement "Before the 20th century, polio infections were rarely seen in infants before six months of age", this requires more clarification and the statement itself is too vague. The paragraph cites as its informational source an article for the World Health Organisation authored by Dr. Susan Robertson ( http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/58891/3/WHO_EPI_GEN_93.16_mod6.pdf)
I have read the entire article and it does does not make any statements of this kind. Rather, Dr. Robertson draws distinctions between sub-clinical infection rates in infants and clinical infections, those being the cause of poliomyelitis paralysis, and describes OPV programs and their effectiveness in eradicating clinical poliomyelitis infections throughout populations. The article also mentions infection rates tracked from significant outbreaks in several countries:
"The majority of wild poliovirus infections are asymptomatic. A type 1 polio outbreak in 1948 allowed direct assessment of the number of subclinical infections for each paralytic case using results of serological tests and virus isolations from stools (Melnick & Ledinko 1953) (Table 1). In a total population of more than 80 000 persons aged 0 to 20 years, fewer than 1% developed paralysis. About one-quarter of children aged 0 to 14 years were infected subclinically, with somewhat higher rates in younger children. Among children aged 1 to 14 years, about 100 were subclinically infected for each paralytic case; among infants, about 200 were subclinitally infected for each paralytic case" -WHO/EPI/GEN/93.16, pp.1-2
There is no data from the article to suggest that "polio infections were rarely seen in infants before six months of age", and there certainly were infections of polio in infants and children before the 20th Century, but these infections were sporadic and did not constitute a "polio plague", the first of which occurred in 1894.
Additionally, there was no way of detecting the presence of poliomyelitis viral material prior to the 20thC. Perhaps the paragraph could be restructured into a more appropriate synopsis of Dr. Robertson's source material which is entitled "The Immunological Basis for Immunization" not "The History of Polio".
From a source on the History of Polio ( http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/polio), this statement is a more accurate description of the content this paragraph outlines:
"Indeed, many scientists think that advances in hygiene paradoxically led to an increased incidence of polio. The theory is that in the past, infants were exposed to polio, mainly through contaminated water supplies, at a very young age. Infants’ immune systems, aided by maternal antibodies still circulating in their blood, could quickly defeat poliovirus and then develop lasting immunity to it. However, better sanitary conditions meant that exposure to polio was delayed until later in life, on average, when a child had lost maternal protection and was also more vulnerable to the most severe form of the disease."
It is my belief that this first sentence of the article requires editing and expansion for greater clarity and precision. The opening sentence of the paragraph probably ought to read something like this:
"Before the 20th Century, clinical infections of poliomyelitis virus causing paralysis were uncommonly seen in infants under six months of age. Prior to the 20th Century, lower standards of sanitation meant infants suffered constant exposure to the virus through contaminated water supplies, but maternal antibodies (provided largely through breastfeeding) allowed natural immunities to overcome infection in the vast majority of population. At the turn of the 20th Century, the prevailing theory holds that the overall purification of water supplies led to a lack of viral exposure until much later ages for the majority of the population, leading to epidemic outbreaks of the most severe form of the virus, which causes clinical poliomyelitis paralysis. The first of these outbreaks is recorded as beginning in 6/17/1894 (in the United States, Rutland County, Vermont)."
And probably ought to reference as its source the "History of Polio" from www.historyofvaccines.org as above. Qwiddity ( talk) 03:58, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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"These efforts have reduced the number of annual diagnosed cases by 99.9%; from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to a low of 483 cases in 2001, after which it has remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year.[80][81] In 2015, cases decreased to 94.[77][82] "
It could not have remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year and have decreased to 94.
The number 94 is not about 1,000 to 2,000.
If it decreased to 94, then it has not remained at about 1,000 to 2,000.
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Please make the following gramatical correction to the last sentence of the first paragraph in the lede.
Please change:
to the gramatically correct
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Please change
it has remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year for a number of years
to
it remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year for a number of years
(delete the word "has")
because
"has remained" means that it still remains there, which is false, because the level 2015 was below 100.
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative:
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a program funded by international governments, the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevents, and UNICEF with the goal of eliminating polio worldwide. The program was launched in 1988 (Callaway 2012). In 2012, the program was revitalized to eradicate polio in the last three major strongholds: Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Global spending was increased by $2.2 billion (Callaway 2012). The GPEI and specifically WHO have been accused of false optimism and rhetoric regarding the time frame of total eradication of polio. It has always been known that door-to-door campaigns in countries with political unrest would be difficult, but WHO continued to make light of the situation, at one point stating “ Global eradication could be achieved as early as 1995” (Closser 2012). The GPEI is still working towards their goal of eliminating polio worldwide (Callaway 2012). Total eradication of polio will provide immense economic benefits; it has been estimated that the eradication of polio will save countries roughly 40 to 50 billion dollars (WHO).
Eradication of Polio in India:
India was one of the last stronghold countries when it came to eradicating polio. In 2000 there were media reports in India that the vaccine used in the earliest round of vaccinations had killed three children (Ember 2003). This lead to a cultural resistance toward vaccination, as parents were afraid that immunization would cause the death of their child (Ember 2003), increasing the eradication difficulty already caused by India’s immense population and widespread poverty.
To combat these difficulties, the Indian government and WHO combined efforts to create the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) (Chaturvedi 2008). By deploying specially trained officers in mobile units, the NPSP actively monitored and reported polio symptoms, collected data, and analyzed the otherwise passive or skeptical population. With help from additional initiatives such as National Immunization Days (NID), held twice a year by a reported 2 million local and outside volunteers India was able to claim full eradication in January of 2011 (Krishna 2014). To ensure there are no longer re-emerging cases of polio in India, the government created the Pulse Polio program, which provides immunization to all citizens under the age of five years old by utilizing social mobilization in local areas (Sharma 2015).
Though successful in eradicating polio, India continues to struggle with a cultural stigma towards those debilitated by the poliovirus, often in defects related to paralysis. Culturally embedded religious views regarding karma and the Hindu caste system cause mass discrimination and marginalization of those with disabilities (Chaturvedi, 2008). As the polio virus was once so widespread in India, disabilities and the resulting stigma are unfortunately common, with experts estimating four million people are currently living in India with the effects of polio (Krishnan 2014).
Similarities Between Countries Still Affected by Polio:
Despite the global aim of eradication, three countries are still affected by polio and recognized by WHO as such – Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. These countries all possess weak health infrastructure and public education. More specific causes, most of them cultural in nature, can be pinpointed as well. The current occurrence of polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan can be explained by the ban on vaccination (Peckham, 2016) placed by the Taliban in 2012. This ban was enforced due to both the Islamic condemnation of immunization and as backlash against the CIA capture of Osama bin Laden in 2011, a Western operation hidden under the cover of a door-to- door Polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan (Peckham, 2016). Communities were already wary of vaccination campaigns due to lack of public health education, and bin Laden’s assassination only increased community distrust and sometimes violent non-cooperation. Eradication efforts in Nigeria continue to suffer due to rumors that have circulated about the vaccination process. In 2003, a WHO polio vaccination program was halted when various Nigerian doctors and politicians publicly claimed that the vaccine carried the risk of AIDS contraction, cancer, and infertility. This reinforced the community rumors caused by lack of education and understanding regarding the disease, often combined with religious opposition (Reinsvold 2010).
Polio cases have also been reported in Syria, beginning in 2013 and directly coinciding with the Syrian Civil War. Conflict zones are especially vulnerable to the spread of disease, but the eradication of Polio in other conflict areas (such as Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo) provides a hopeful future outlook (Peckham, 2016). — Preceding unsigned comment added by M608b375 ( talk • contribs) 00:53, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Correction needed for link on Reference #39: Wording is correct, but the URL needs to be changed to [5] The Lincolnshire Post-Polio Library is now on the newer site: Polio Survivors Network. OB93 ( talk) 21:47, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
For medical content we reference every sentence. Best Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:11, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
(Previous relocated here from User_talk:Tobus)
Per Poliomyelitis eradication, there were a few more cases detected in Pakistan and Afghanistan at the end of 2015, that weren't counted the when the numbers presented in this article were referenced. Pakistan ended up with 54/2, and Afghanistan 20/0 of WPV/cVDPV, respectively. Please edit the table to reflect that. 50.179.159.178 ( talk) 00:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Is it OK for me to spell out the abbreviations in the titles of journals or other parts of references. I think it's tough enough for lay people to understand technical and scientific articles, and it can be off-putting to see things like "NIH" or "Annu Rev Microbiol" that medical or scientific people know but might as well be a foreign language to others. Capital letters should also be used for almost all words in titles of articles. These are two of my general pet peeves and ordinarily I just go ahead and make those changes, but I saw the request for all changes to be discussed. My background is as a medical doctor in infectious diseases, so I might be able to make some content additions, too. (I've never seen a case of polio, but still...) Ira Leviton ( talk) 20:16, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Can someone please fix: In 2015 Nigeria had stopped the spread of wild poliovirus but it reoccurred in 2016.[6][7]
It recurred, there is no such word as 'reoccurred'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.137.120.64 ( talk) 11:31, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
This should be included in Wikipedia.
FRANCE
The Pasteur Institute stated that an anti-poliomyelitis vaccine, developed by Professor Pierre Lepine would soon be produced in large quantities. (Times, London, April 4, 1955). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.201.179.7 ( talk) 16:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
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In the Epidemiology section, please replace the map titled "Reported polio cases in 2015" and the table below it with the map and table for 2016, which can be copied from /info/en/?search=Poliomyelitis_eradication#2016 47.139.45.248 ( talk) 06:13, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
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Can someone change the following text:
In 2016 polio affected less than 50 people, down from 350,000 cases in 1988.
To...
In 2016 there were 75 reported cases globally, down from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988.
The corrected text reflects what the sources say more accurately, and give context to the region (world wide).
Thanks. -- 24.182.92.247 ( talk) 02:15, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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Please change the information in the third paragraph so that the facts in the cited webpage(s) and the facts in the article match up.
Here is what the article currently states:
"In 2016, polio affected fewer than 50 people, down from 350,000 cases in 1988."
Neither of the links make the same suggestion. The closest is the WHO webspage, which states specifically:
"Polio cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350 000 cases then, to 74 reported cases in 2015."
I made a request earlier, which was turned down. However, the extent of my request was apparently not understood. I will break it down to make it more simple (and let's ignore the fact that I incorrectly suggested 2016 instead of 2015, and 75 instead of 74!).
You can see that there are, as I see it, multiple issues with the sentence - it's not merely about the uncorrelated figures.
This was quite a lot of effort on my part, in order to make a simple correction. Partly because the article is locked, and partly because an editor just rejected the request without understanding it fully. -- 24.182.92.247 ( talk) 01:38, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
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Please change the sentence "In 2015, cases decreased to 98" to "Cases decreased to 98 in 2015, and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases." (Exact wording is your option; I just want to add the 2016 numbers because we should have the most recent figures.) 47.139.44.241 ( talk) 14:03, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
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In the Epidemiology section:
1. Where it says "Reported polio cases in 2016[2][5]", please change [2][5] to a reference to https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx
2. Where it says "In 2015, cases decreased to 98 and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases.[80][81]", please add a reference to https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx
because...
The Epidemiology section has statistics for dates in 2016 with references to documents from before the period covered by the statistics. This is possibly my fault for previously requesting that the statistics be updated without bothering to check the citations.
The references [2][5] were for a table for an earlier year (not 2016). The current table was copied from the separate eradication article and should have the same reference as it does.
The references [80][81] were for the 2015 part of the sentence. The 2016 part of the sentence was recently added as is based on the same 2016 table and therefore should have the same reference. 47.139.40.250 ( talk) 05:27, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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Please add the following (mostly copied from the separate polio eradication article) at the end of the Africa section to reflect recent developments related to cVDPV:
In 2017, it was reported that separate new outbreaks caused by cVDPV2 had occurred in southern and east-central provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] 47.139.41.108 ( talk) 15:27, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
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"In those with muscle weakness [...] 15 to 30 percent of adults die." In fact, 100% of them die. Needs rewording. E.g. "...as a result" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.199.153.211 ( talk) 09:57, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Are you sure the polio vaccine is the only way to prevent poliomyelitis? Polio spreads via the fecal-oral route, so you have to eat contaminated food to be infected, right? Doesn't that mean cooking the food can kill the polio virus and therefore prevent infection? ScamsAreHorrible172 ( talk) 04:54, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
maybe a link to Poliomyelitis eradication could be added to a new 'see also' section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.37.82.172 ( talk) 21:37, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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In 2016, polio affected 42 people, while there were about 350,000 cases in 1988.
Should read:
In 2016, wild cases of polio affected 37 people, while there were about 350,000 cases in 1988. 5 more cases derived from circulating vaccine-derived cases.
This page cites 37 wild cases of polio and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases somewhere else, where it lists cases per country.
Bill Gates Foundation also states 37 cases for Polio in his 2017 Annual Letter. Surely the correct figure is the Wild cases, not including Vaccine-derived cases.
"In 2015 Nigeria had stopped the spread of wild poliovirus but it reoccurred in 2016." Shouldn't it be "recurred"? Prisoner of Zenda ( talk) 23:21, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Issue 1:
Poliomyelitis article has a table of "Reported polio cases in 2017" showing 20 wild cases (12 in Afghanistan) and 86 circulating vaccine-derived cases. Poliomyelitis eradication article says "There were 21 reported WPV1 polio cases with onset of paralysis in 2017" and has a table of "Reported polio cases in 2017" showing 21 wild cases (13 in Afghanistan) and 86 circulating vaccine-derived cases.
Don't know whether 20 and 12 or 21 and 13 are the correct figures. https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx says 20 and 12. http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/ says 21 and 13.
If possible, find out which is correct and fix the other article. If not possible to determine correct figures, then put both sets of figures ("20 or 21" for global total; "12 or 13" for Afghanistan) in both article and tag them with a note saying that there is a discrepancy between WHO and the other source.
Issue 2:
Article lead gives figures for 2016 but not for 2017. After determining correct figures to use for 2017, please update article lead to include them. 47.139.44.60 ( talk) 06:26, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please change "It is likely that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases will exceed wild-type cases in the near future" to "Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases exceeded wild-type cases for the first time in 2017". (If you wish to include a citation to a source, copy it from the poliomyelitis eradication article.) 47.139.42.119 ( talk) 06:28, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/ and https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx both say that there were 22 wild cases in 2017 and 91 circulating vaccine-derived cases in 2017. And 91 exceeds 22 by more than a factor of four. So the article should say "Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases EXCEEDED [past tense] wild-type cases in 2017", not "will exceed" [future tense], which implies that it hasn't yet happened, when it already happened in 2017. 47.139.40.219 ( talk) 01:09, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
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In infobox, change "Frequency 42 people (2016)" to "Frequency 113 people (2017)" and update footnote as well (should match footnote on the "Reported polio cases in 2017" box).
In lead, change "In 2015, cases decreased to 98 and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases" to "In 2015, cases decreased to 98 and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases, but increased in 2017 to 22 wild cases and 91 circulating vaccine-derived cases" and update footnote as well (keep existing footnotes and add footnotes found on the "Reported polio cases in 2017" box). 47.139.40.219 ( talk) 01:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC) 47.139.40.219 ( talk) 01:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
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In the Afghanistan and Pakistan section
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This is the last remaining region with wild polio cases. Both major sides of the Afghan civil war support polio vaccination[122] and polio rates are declining rapidly in Afghanistan, with 19 cases in 2015[100][117] and 13 in 2016.[123]
In Pakistan there were 53 cases in 2015, the highest number for any country,[100][117] and 20 in 2016.[123]
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This is the last remaining region with wild polio cases. Both major sides of the Afghan civil war support polio vaccination[122] and polio rates in Afghanistan are low, but no longer declining, with 19 cases in 2015[100][117], 13 in 2016[123], and 14 in in 2017.
In Pakistan, rates are declining rapidly in recent years, with 53 cases in 2015, the highest number for any country,[100][117], 20 in 2016[123], and only 8 in 2017.
Copy cites for both 2017 statistics from the infobox that shows them or from /info/en/?search=Poliomyelitis_eradication#2017
because 1) Since figures are given for 2015 and 2016, they should also be provided for 2017. 2) The drop in Afghanistan from 2015 to 2017 isn't enough to be called "rapidly declining", and there was actually a slight increase from 2016 to 2017. 3) The Pakistan figures dropped much faster (over 80% in two years) and do legitimately qualify as rapid decline. 47.139.45.52 ( talk) 17:04, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
This is my first edit attempt, so I don't know the conventions yet. It's taken an hour I didn't have, so I still need to clean it up.
This article says that polio is found naturally only in humans. That is in the last sentence of one of the early paragraphs, before any sections begin. The statement has a citation to source [1], which was published in 2015.
But polio is well documented in non-human primates in the wild, primarily the great apes but also colobus monkeys. (needs citation)
Jane Goodall observed an outbreak of a polio-like illness in free-ranging chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in 1966. (Goodall, J. 1986. The Chimpanzees of Gombe. Harvard University Press.).
Later, the virus and its effects were confirmed in that population (Morbeck, M.E., A.L. Zihlman, D.R.Sumner, A. Galloway, 1991. Poliomyelitis and skeletal asymmetry in Gombe chimpanzees. Primates January 1991, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 77–91).
Dr_Which -- Dr Which ( talk) 07:55, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Came across [7] - is this a useful historical reference? Jackiespeel ( talk) 18:15, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
I would submit the following (S286, The Biologic Principles of Poliovirus Eradication, Walter R. Dowdle and Maureen E. Birmingham. 1997):
Wherein it states that the virus has been found in the wild in shellfish. Now to be fair they state that the virus occurs as a concentration due to "contaminated" waters. However, it is doubtful that they tested this premise by dosing a closed system with shellfish denizens with a known quantity to test for any signs of reproduction within the shellfish vector. My reasoning for stating this is because in the paper, they do not in fact state that they tested the validity of the premise.
The failure to find something is not proof of the non-existence of the same and only an indication of a scope which was far too limited. So we should not cite as fact a negative argument based upon an incomplete or unsuccessful search. Instead, we should state that a natural vector, that could presumably be tied to a resulting infection to humans has yet to be found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.156.108.78 ( talk) 17:12, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
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In the section Epidemiology, please replace the wikitable "Reported polio cases in 2017" with the one for 2018 (including cites, maps, and numerical values). You can copy it from /info/en/?search=Poliomyelitis_eradication#2018 47.139.41.238 ( talk) 07:04, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: Not Moved - strong arguments for both, but WP:AT and WP:NCMED hold sway here. The suggestion to revist NCMED on issues like this is however a good one. Mike Cline ( talk) 12:07, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Poliomyelitis →
Polio – Per
WP:COMMONNAME, "Polio" is far more commonly used than "Poliomyelitis". for example, see
this Google Trends graph. Thus I believe this article should be moved to the common name of Polio.
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"sore throat". Why does this article need protection? 2604:2000:71E7:8D00:4D50:36DE:8FF6:7554 ( talk) 00:28, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Goes like this:
That's not right. The fact that many people have minor symptoms or have no symptoms at all is not essential to the basic description of the illness. It is (or was) known and significant for its major debilitating effects and lethality. The intro should not begin with what is effectively a footnote. GregorB ( talk) 12:12, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
The disease still occurs. And yes we often do emphasis disease content rather than historical content. Many lay people know about it in the countries where it still occurs because of the campaigns that are working to eradicate the disease. We are a global encyclopedia and not just for people from the USA. I agree that when the disease is eradicated we should change the layout of the article and the lead. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 09:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
The lead is written to reflect the body of the text. It also follows the ordering of the body of the text. There is nothing wrong with this. We do it for 100s of disease related articles.
I am not sure if you are trying to eliminate a discussion of symptoms from the lead or not? But if that is your goal I oppose it. The disease still occurrs in countries were 100s of millions of people live. Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 11:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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I'm taking issue with the statement "Before the 20th century, polio infections were rarely seen in infants before six months of age", this requires more clarification and the statement itself is too vague. The paragraph cites as its informational source an article for the World Health Organisation authored by Dr. Susan Robertson ( http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/58891/3/WHO_EPI_GEN_93.16_mod6.pdf)
I have read the entire article and it does does not make any statements of this kind. Rather, Dr. Robertson draws distinctions between sub-clinical infection rates in infants and clinical infections, those being the cause of poliomyelitis paralysis, and describes OPV programs and their effectiveness in eradicating clinical poliomyelitis infections throughout populations. The article also mentions infection rates tracked from significant outbreaks in several countries:
"The majority of wild poliovirus infections are asymptomatic. A type 1 polio outbreak in 1948 allowed direct assessment of the number of subclinical infections for each paralytic case using results of serological tests and virus isolations from stools (Melnick & Ledinko 1953) (Table 1). In a total population of more than 80 000 persons aged 0 to 20 years, fewer than 1% developed paralysis. About one-quarter of children aged 0 to 14 years were infected subclinically, with somewhat higher rates in younger children. Among children aged 1 to 14 years, about 100 were subclinically infected for each paralytic case; among infants, about 200 were subclinitally infected for each paralytic case" -WHO/EPI/GEN/93.16, pp.1-2
There is no data from the article to suggest that "polio infections were rarely seen in infants before six months of age", and there certainly were infections of polio in infants and children before the 20th Century, but these infections were sporadic and did not constitute a "polio plague", the first of which occurred in 1894.
Additionally, there was no way of detecting the presence of poliomyelitis viral material prior to the 20thC. Perhaps the paragraph could be restructured into a more appropriate synopsis of Dr. Robertson's source material which is entitled "The Immunological Basis for Immunization" not "The History of Polio".
From a source on the History of Polio ( http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/polio), this statement is a more accurate description of the content this paragraph outlines:
"Indeed, many scientists think that advances in hygiene paradoxically led to an increased incidence of polio. The theory is that in the past, infants were exposed to polio, mainly through contaminated water supplies, at a very young age. Infants’ immune systems, aided by maternal antibodies still circulating in their blood, could quickly defeat poliovirus and then develop lasting immunity to it. However, better sanitary conditions meant that exposure to polio was delayed until later in life, on average, when a child had lost maternal protection and was also more vulnerable to the most severe form of the disease."
It is my belief that this first sentence of the article requires editing and expansion for greater clarity and precision. The opening sentence of the paragraph probably ought to read something like this:
"Before the 20th Century, clinical infections of poliomyelitis virus causing paralysis were uncommonly seen in infants under six months of age. Prior to the 20th Century, lower standards of sanitation meant infants suffered constant exposure to the virus through contaminated water supplies, but maternal antibodies (provided largely through breastfeeding) allowed natural immunities to overcome infection in the vast majority of population. At the turn of the 20th Century, the prevailing theory holds that the overall purification of water supplies led to a lack of viral exposure until much later ages for the majority of the population, leading to epidemic outbreaks of the most severe form of the virus, which causes clinical poliomyelitis paralysis. The first of these outbreaks is recorded as beginning in 6/17/1894 (in the United States, Rutland County, Vermont)."
And probably ought to reference as its source the "History of Polio" from www.historyofvaccines.org as above. Qwiddity ( talk) 03:58, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
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"These efforts have reduced the number of annual diagnosed cases by 99.9%; from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to a low of 483 cases in 2001, after which it has remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year.[80][81] In 2015, cases decreased to 94.[77][82] "
It could not have remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year and have decreased to 94.
The number 94 is not about 1,000 to 2,000.
If it decreased to 94, then it has not remained at about 1,000 to 2,000.
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Please make the following gramatical correction to the last sentence of the first paragraph in the lede.
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to the gramatically correct
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it has remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year for a number of years
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it remained at a level of about 1,000 - 2000 cases per year for a number of years
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"has remained" means that it still remains there, which is false, because the level 2015 was below 100.
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative:
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a program funded by international governments, the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevents, and UNICEF with the goal of eliminating polio worldwide. The program was launched in 1988 (Callaway 2012). In 2012, the program was revitalized to eradicate polio in the last three major strongholds: Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Global spending was increased by $2.2 billion (Callaway 2012). The GPEI and specifically WHO have been accused of false optimism and rhetoric regarding the time frame of total eradication of polio. It has always been known that door-to-door campaigns in countries with political unrest would be difficult, but WHO continued to make light of the situation, at one point stating “ Global eradication could be achieved as early as 1995” (Closser 2012). The GPEI is still working towards their goal of eliminating polio worldwide (Callaway 2012). Total eradication of polio will provide immense economic benefits; it has been estimated that the eradication of polio will save countries roughly 40 to 50 billion dollars (WHO).
Eradication of Polio in India:
India was one of the last stronghold countries when it came to eradicating polio. In 2000 there were media reports in India that the vaccine used in the earliest round of vaccinations had killed three children (Ember 2003). This lead to a cultural resistance toward vaccination, as parents were afraid that immunization would cause the death of their child (Ember 2003), increasing the eradication difficulty already caused by India’s immense population and widespread poverty.
To combat these difficulties, the Indian government and WHO combined efforts to create the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) (Chaturvedi 2008). By deploying specially trained officers in mobile units, the NPSP actively monitored and reported polio symptoms, collected data, and analyzed the otherwise passive or skeptical population. With help from additional initiatives such as National Immunization Days (NID), held twice a year by a reported 2 million local and outside volunteers India was able to claim full eradication in January of 2011 (Krishna 2014). To ensure there are no longer re-emerging cases of polio in India, the government created the Pulse Polio program, which provides immunization to all citizens under the age of five years old by utilizing social mobilization in local areas (Sharma 2015).
Though successful in eradicating polio, India continues to struggle with a cultural stigma towards those debilitated by the poliovirus, often in defects related to paralysis. Culturally embedded religious views regarding karma and the Hindu caste system cause mass discrimination and marginalization of those with disabilities (Chaturvedi, 2008). As the polio virus was once so widespread in India, disabilities and the resulting stigma are unfortunately common, with experts estimating four million people are currently living in India with the effects of polio (Krishnan 2014).
Similarities Between Countries Still Affected by Polio:
Despite the global aim of eradication, three countries are still affected by polio and recognized by WHO as such – Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. These countries all possess weak health infrastructure and public education. More specific causes, most of them cultural in nature, can be pinpointed as well. The current occurrence of polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan can be explained by the ban on vaccination (Peckham, 2016) placed by the Taliban in 2012. This ban was enforced due to both the Islamic condemnation of immunization and as backlash against the CIA capture of Osama bin Laden in 2011, a Western operation hidden under the cover of a door-to- door Polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan (Peckham, 2016). Communities were already wary of vaccination campaigns due to lack of public health education, and bin Laden’s assassination only increased community distrust and sometimes violent non-cooperation. Eradication efforts in Nigeria continue to suffer due to rumors that have circulated about the vaccination process. In 2003, a WHO polio vaccination program was halted when various Nigerian doctors and politicians publicly claimed that the vaccine carried the risk of AIDS contraction, cancer, and infertility. This reinforced the community rumors caused by lack of education and understanding regarding the disease, often combined with religious opposition (Reinsvold 2010).
Polio cases have also been reported in Syria, beginning in 2013 and directly coinciding with the Syrian Civil War. Conflict zones are especially vulnerable to the spread of disease, but the eradication of Polio in other conflict areas (such as Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo) provides a hopeful future outlook (Peckham, 2016). — Preceding unsigned comment added by M608b375 ( talk • contribs) 00:53, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Correction needed for link on Reference #39: Wording is correct, but the URL needs to be changed to [5] The Lincolnshire Post-Polio Library is now on the newer site: Polio Survivors Network. OB93 ( talk) 21:47, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
For medical content we reference every sentence. Best Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) 16:11, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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Per Poliomyelitis eradication, there were a few more cases detected in Pakistan and Afghanistan at the end of 2015, that weren't counted the when the numbers presented in this article were referenced. Pakistan ended up with 54/2, and Afghanistan 20/0 of WPV/cVDPV, respectively. Please edit the table to reflect that. 50.179.159.178 ( talk) 00:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Is it OK for me to spell out the abbreviations in the titles of journals or other parts of references. I think it's tough enough for lay people to understand technical and scientific articles, and it can be off-putting to see things like "NIH" or "Annu Rev Microbiol" that medical or scientific people know but might as well be a foreign language to others. Capital letters should also be used for almost all words in titles of articles. These are two of my general pet peeves and ordinarily I just go ahead and make those changes, but I saw the request for all changes to be discussed. My background is as a medical doctor in infectious diseases, so I might be able to make some content additions, too. (I've never seen a case of polio, but still...) Ira Leviton ( talk) 20:16, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Can someone please fix: In 2015 Nigeria had stopped the spread of wild poliovirus but it reoccurred in 2016.[6][7]
It recurred, there is no such word as 'reoccurred'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.137.120.64 ( talk) 11:31, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
This should be included in Wikipedia.
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The Pasteur Institute stated that an anti-poliomyelitis vaccine, developed by Professor Pierre Lepine would soon be produced in large quantities. (Times, London, April 4, 1955). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.201.179.7 ( talk) 16:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
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In the Epidemiology section, please replace the map titled "Reported polio cases in 2015" and the table below it with the map and table for 2016, which can be copied from /info/en/?search=Poliomyelitis_eradication#2016 47.139.45.248 ( talk) 06:13, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
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Can someone change the following text:
In 2016 polio affected less than 50 people, down from 350,000 cases in 1988.
To...
In 2016 there were 75 reported cases globally, down from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988.
The corrected text reflects what the sources say more accurately, and give context to the region (world wide).
Thanks. -- 24.182.92.247 ( talk) 02:15, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
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Please change the information in the third paragraph so that the facts in the cited webpage(s) and the facts in the article match up.
Here is what the article currently states:
"In 2016, polio affected fewer than 50 people, down from 350,000 cases in 1988."
Neither of the links make the same suggestion. The closest is the WHO webspage, which states specifically:
"Polio cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350 000 cases then, to 74 reported cases in 2015."
I made a request earlier, which was turned down. However, the extent of my request was apparently not understood. I will break it down to make it more simple (and let's ignore the fact that I incorrectly suggested 2016 instead of 2015, and 75 instead of 74!).
You can see that there are, as I see it, multiple issues with the sentence - it's not merely about the uncorrelated figures.
This was quite a lot of effort on my part, in order to make a simple correction. Partly because the article is locked, and partly because an editor just rejected the request without understanding it fully. -- 24.182.92.247 ( talk) 01:38, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
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Please change the sentence "In 2015, cases decreased to 98" to "Cases decreased to 98 in 2015, and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases." (Exact wording is your option; I just want to add the 2016 numbers because we should have the most recent figures.) 47.139.44.241 ( talk) 14:03, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
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In the Epidemiology section:
1. Where it says "Reported polio cases in 2016[2][5]", please change [2][5] to a reference to https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx
2. Where it says "In 2015, cases decreased to 98 and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases.[80][81]", please add a reference to https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx
because...
The Epidemiology section has statistics for dates in 2016 with references to documents from before the period covered by the statistics. This is possibly my fault for previously requesting that the statistics be updated without bothering to check the citations.
The references [2][5] were for a table for an earlier year (not 2016). The current table was copied from the separate eradication article and should have the same reference as it does.
The references [80][81] were for the 2015 part of the sentence. The 2016 part of the sentence was recently added as is based on the same 2016 table and therefore should have the same reference. 47.139.40.250 ( talk) 05:27, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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Please add the following (mostly copied from the separate polio eradication article) at the end of the Africa section to reflect recent developments related to cVDPV:
In 2017, it was reported that separate new outbreaks caused by cVDPV2 had occurred in southern and east-central provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] 47.139.41.108 ( talk) 15:27, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
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"In those with muscle weakness [...] 15 to 30 percent of adults die." In fact, 100% of them die. Needs rewording. E.g. "...as a result" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.199.153.211 ( talk) 09:57, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Are you sure the polio vaccine is the only way to prevent poliomyelitis? Polio spreads via the fecal-oral route, so you have to eat contaminated food to be infected, right? Doesn't that mean cooking the food can kill the polio virus and therefore prevent infection? ScamsAreHorrible172 ( talk) 04:54, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
maybe a link to Poliomyelitis eradication could be added to a new 'see also' section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.37.82.172 ( talk) 21:37, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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In 2016, polio affected 42 people, while there were about 350,000 cases in 1988.
Should read:
In 2016, wild cases of polio affected 37 people, while there were about 350,000 cases in 1988. 5 more cases derived from circulating vaccine-derived cases.
This page cites 37 wild cases of polio and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases somewhere else, where it lists cases per country.
Bill Gates Foundation also states 37 cases for Polio in his 2017 Annual Letter. Surely the correct figure is the Wild cases, not including Vaccine-derived cases.
"In 2015 Nigeria had stopped the spread of wild poliovirus but it reoccurred in 2016." Shouldn't it be "recurred"? Prisoner of Zenda ( talk) 23:21, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
Issue 1:
Poliomyelitis article has a table of "Reported polio cases in 2017" showing 20 wild cases (12 in Afghanistan) and 86 circulating vaccine-derived cases. Poliomyelitis eradication article says "There were 21 reported WPV1 polio cases with onset of paralysis in 2017" and has a table of "Reported polio cases in 2017" showing 21 wild cases (13 in Afghanistan) and 86 circulating vaccine-derived cases.
Don't know whether 20 and 12 or 21 and 13 are the correct figures. https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx says 20 and 12. http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/ says 21 and 13.
If possible, find out which is correct and fix the other article. If not possible to determine correct figures, then put both sets of figures ("20 or 21" for global total; "12 or 13" for Afghanistan) in both article and tag them with a note saying that there is a discrepancy between WHO and the other source.
Issue 2:
Article lead gives figures for 2016 but not for 2017. After determining correct figures to use for 2017, please update article lead to include them. 47.139.44.60 ( talk) 06:26, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
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Please change "It is likely that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases will exceed wild-type cases in the near future" to "Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases exceeded wild-type cases for the first time in 2017". (If you wish to include a citation to a source, copy it from the poliomyelitis eradication article.) 47.139.42.119 ( talk) 06:28, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/ and https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx both say that there were 22 wild cases in 2017 and 91 circulating vaccine-derived cases in 2017. And 91 exceeds 22 by more than a factor of four. So the article should say "Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases EXCEEDED [past tense] wild-type cases in 2017", not "will exceed" [future tense], which implies that it hasn't yet happened, when it already happened in 2017. 47.139.40.219 ( talk) 01:09, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
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In infobox, change "Frequency 42 people (2016)" to "Frequency 113 people (2017)" and update footnote as well (should match footnote on the "Reported polio cases in 2017" box).
In lead, change "In 2015, cases decreased to 98 and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases" to "In 2015, cases decreased to 98 and further decreased in 2016 to 37 wild cases and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases, but increased in 2017 to 22 wild cases and 91 circulating vaccine-derived cases" and update footnote as well (keep existing footnotes and add footnotes found on the "Reported polio cases in 2017" box). 47.139.40.219 ( talk) 01:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC) 47.139.40.219 ( talk) 01:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
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In the Afghanistan and Pakistan section
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This is the last remaining region with wild polio cases. Both major sides of the Afghan civil war support polio vaccination[122] and polio rates are declining rapidly in Afghanistan, with 19 cases in 2015[100][117] and 13 in 2016.[123]
In Pakistan there were 53 cases in 2015, the highest number for any country,[100][117] and 20 in 2016.[123]
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This is the last remaining region with wild polio cases. Both major sides of the Afghan civil war support polio vaccination[122] and polio rates in Afghanistan are low, but no longer declining, with 19 cases in 2015[100][117], 13 in 2016[123], and 14 in in 2017.
In Pakistan, rates are declining rapidly in recent years, with 53 cases in 2015, the highest number for any country,[100][117], 20 in 2016[123], and only 8 in 2017.
Copy cites for both 2017 statistics from the infobox that shows them or from /info/en/?search=Poliomyelitis_eradication#2017
because 1) Since figures are given for 2015 and 2016, they should also be provided for 2017. 2) The drop in Afghanistan from 2015 to 2017 isn't enough to be called "rapidly declining", and there was actually a slight increase from 2016 to 2017. 3) The Pakistan figures dropped much faster (over 80% in two years) and do legitimately qualify as rapid decline. 47.139.45.52 ( talk) 17:04, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
This is my first edit attempt, so I don't know the conventions yet. It's taken an hour I didn't have, so I still need to clean it up.
This article says that polio is found naturally only in humans. That is in the last sentence of one of the early paragraphs, before any sections begin. The statement has a citation to source [1], which was published in 2015.
But polio is well documented in non-human primates in the wild, primarily the great apes but also colobus monkeys. (needs citation)
Jane Goodall observed an outbreak of a polio-like illness in free-ranging chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in 1966. (Goodall, J. 1986. The Chimpanzees of Gombe. Harvard University Press.).
Later, the virus and its effects were confirmed in that population (Morbeck, M.E., A.L. Zihlman, D.R.Sumner, A. Galloway, 1991. Poliomyelitis and skeletal asymmetry in Gombe chimpanzees. Primates January 1991, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 77–91).
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Came across [7] - is this a useful historical reference? Jackiespeel ( talk) 18:15, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
I would submit the following (S286, The Biologic Principles of Poliovirus Eradication, Walter R. Dowdle and Maureen E. Birmingham. 1997):
Wherein it states that the virus has been found in the wild in shellfish. Now to be fair they state that the virus occurs as a concentration due to "contaminated" waters. However, it is doubtful that they tested this premise by dosing a closed system with shellfish denizens with a known quantity to test for any signs of reproduction within the shellfish vector. My reasoning for stating this is because in the paper, they do not in fact state that they tested the validity of the premise.
The failure to find something is not proof of the non-existence of the same and only an indication of a scope which was far too limited. So we should not cite as fact a negative argument based upon an incomplete or unsuccessful search. Instead, we should state that a natural vector, that could presumably be tied to a resulting infection to humans has yet to be found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.156.108.78 ( talk) 17:12, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
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In the section Epidemiology, please replace the wikitable "Reported polio cases in 2017" with the one for 2018 (including cites, maps, and numerical values). You can copy it from /info/en/?search=Poliomyelitis_eradication#2018 47.139.41.238 ( talk) 07:04, 10 February 2019 (UTC)