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Commentary

The number of polio victims worldwide is down by 75% in 10 years, and confidence is running high that polio will be eradicated by the target date of the year 2000.

But with polio reduced to low levels, many countries will find it difficult to justify spending the millions of dollars a year needed to finally wipe out the virus.

And it cannot be eradicated anywhere unless it is eradicated everywhere.

Jong Wook Lee argues that the steepest part of the road to polio eradication is yet to come.

The Polio Virus Eradicated by the year 2000?
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