Journal Article

Polio and the risk for the European Union

Celentano, Lucia Pastore, Huitric, Emma, Coulombier, Denis, Lopalco, Pier Luigi, Giesecke, Johan

2014

نظرة عامة

Importantly, in addition to vaccinating Syrian refugees, ECDC has invited European Member States to assess their national vaccination coverage against polio (we estimate that 12 million residents in the European Union younger than 30 years are unvaccinated), detect areas at risk, and to engage in complementary action, especially among vulnerable groups living in poor sanitary conditions, recommend to travellers to areas with WPV circulation to ensure they have an updated polio vaccination status, enhance their surveillance system based on the requirements established by the Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication,4 strengthen their existing environmental and enterovirus surveillance to complement acute flaccid paralysis surveillance (with the present suboptimum quality of EU polio surveillance systems it is probable that WPV circulation is not promptly detected), assess their laboratory capacity, and to update their preparedness plans for polio outbreaks.

• الناشر: Elsevier Ltd,Elsevier Limited
• موضوع: Disease Outbreaks / Humans / Immunization / Indexing in process / Internal Medicine / Poliomyelitis / Poliomyelitis - epidemiology / Surveillance / Vaccines