Poliomyelitis Eradication (3rd ed.)

This Poliomyelitis Eradication Field Guide presents information and strategies that health workers in the Americas should be familiar with in order to keep the hemisphere polio-free. Perhaps a more appropriate title would be “Field Guide for the Maintenance of Polio Eradication,” since the last case of this disease caused by wild poliovirus in the Region was detected in 1991 (see Figure 1). In 1994, the International Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication in the Americas (