Acute Flaccid Paralysis surveillance - Australia Progress Report 1995-1998

Authors

  • Rennie D'Souza Surveillance and Management Section, National Centre for Disease Control, Commonwealth Department of Health and Age Care; National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
  • Margery Kennett National Polio Reference Laboratory, Epidemiology and Public Health Division, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.1999.23.19

Keywords:

acute flaccid paralysis, Poliomyelitis, eradication, Western Pacific Region

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to eradicate poliomyelitis from the Western Pacific Region by the year 2000. As part of the certification process, active surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) was initiated in Australia in March 1995.

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Regional Commission (Regional Poliomyelitis Eradication Certification issues) WPR/VID/EPI(3)97

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Published

13/05/99

How to Cite

D'Souza, Rennie, and Margery Kennett. 1999. “Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance - Australia Progress Report 1995-1998”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 23 (May):128-31. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.1999.23.19.

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Vol. 23 (1999)

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