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028			_a:Westland Publication Pvt. Ltd. _b:No 4/249 -A, Poonamallee High Road Goparasanallur, Kattupakkam Chennai _c;CN-21-CBR-2987 _d:25/02/2022
082			_a616.835 ABR
100			_aAbraham, Thomas
245			_aPolio _b: the odyssey of eradication _c/ Thomas Abraham
260			_aChennai _b:Westland Publication Pvt. Ltd. _c@2018
300			_axxvii, 252 pages _c; 22 cm
365			_b699
505			_aPart I: The virus, the vaccines and a crippled president -- The Shadowy World of the Poliovirus -- The President and the Poliovirus -- The Salk Vaccine: Ending the Terror of Polio -- A Tool for Eradication: Albert Sabin and the Oral Polio Vaccine -- Part II: The road to eradication -- A Coalition of the Willing: The Birth of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative -- Eradicating Poliomyelitis from Spaceship Earth -- A Hasty Decision and a Slow Start -- In the Doldrums -- Part III: The long endgame -- Rogue Vaccines and Rogue Viruses -- India: A Long Dirty War -- Two Crises and a Final Victory -- Pakistan: Where the Poliovirus Hid in Bin Laden's Shadow.
520			_aIn 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers"-- Publisher description
650			_aMedicine and health
650			_a Diseases
650			_aPoliomyelitis -- prevention & control
650			_aPoliovirus Vaccines
650			_aDisease Eradication
700			_aAbraham, Thomas
942			_cBOOK
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