January 2020 - The Epidemiology Monitor

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Progress In Achieving Worldwide Polio Eradication Is Reversed

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Risk Of International Spread Is Now At Highest Point Since 2014 “Gravely concerned”. That’s how the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee meeting at the World Health Organization last month reacted to the latest update on the progress of the international polio eradication program.

by December 31, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). Recommendation Because it saw no significant success yet in reversing the trend, IHR recommended that countries with the potential to cause international spread should conduct intensified activities. The three countries where polio wild

The group noted the significant increase in wild polio virus type 1 cases to 113 globally as of December 11, 2019 compared to 28 for the same period in 2018. In fact, the total number of wild polio cases in 2019 rose to 163

This slogan was created to help block Washington State from revoking the option for parents to claim a philosophical exemption to vaccination The slogan is one local example of the spread of misinformation and a threat to public health. Another very current vaccine example is the rejection of polio vaccination by parents in Pakistan which is threatening the January 2020

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New Center To Study The “Epidemiology Of Misinformation” “Vaccines…the more you KNOW, the more you NO!

-32020 Flu Season Trends

success of the worldwide polio eradication effort. Partnership The University of Washington (UW) and the State University of Washington have created a statewide partnership to study “the epidemiology of misinformation” and combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation. This is to be accomplished by creating an - Misinformation cont'd on page 4 •

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