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maybe a link to Poliomyelitis eradication could be added to a new 'see also' section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.37.82.172 (talk) 21:37, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Tornado chaser (talk) 12:56, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Prevention

Are you sure the polio vaccine is the only way to prevent poliomyelitis? Polio spreads via the fecal-oral route, so you have to eat contaminated food to be infected, right? Doesn't that mean cooking the food can kill the polio virus and therefore prevent infection? ScamsAreHorrible172 (talk) 04:54, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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2016 cases of polio

In 2016, polio affected 42 people, while there were about 350,000 cases in 1988.

Should read:

In 2016, wild cases of polio affected 37 people, while there were about 350,000 cases in 1988. 5 more cases derived from circulating vaccine-derived cases.

This page cites 37 wild cases of polio and 5 circulating vaccine-derived cases somewhere else, where it lists cases per country.

Bill Gates Foundation also states 37 cases for Polio in his 2017 Annual Letter. Surely the correct figure is the Wild cases, not including Vaccine-derived cases.

Done. Tornado chaser (talk) 02:31, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction

"In 2015 Nigeria had stopped the spread of wild poliovirus but it reoccurred in 2016." Shouldn't it be "recurred"? Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 23:21, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please change "It is likely that circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases will exceed wild-type cases in the near future" to "Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases exceeded wild-type cases for the first time in 2017". (If you wish to include a citation to a source, copy it from the poliomyelitis eradication article.) 47.139.42.119 (talk) 06:28, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Could you clarify where in the poliomyelitis eradication article the source for this is? Tornado chaser (talk) 12:40, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. There is no such citation in Poliomyelitis eradication and the current text matches the source given. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 22:20, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy between 2017 figures in poliomyelitis article and poliomyelitis eradication article

Issue 1:

Poliomyelitis article has a table of "Reported polio cases in 2017" showing 20 wild cases (12 in Afghanistan) and 86 circulating vaccine-derived cases. Poliomyelitis eradication article says "There were 21 reported WPV1 polio cases with onset of paralysis in 2017" and has a table of "Reported polio cases in 2017" showing 21 wild cases (13 in Afghanistan) and 86 circulating vaccine-derived cases.

Don't know whether 20 and 12 or 21 and 13 are the correct figures. https://extranet.who.int/polis/public/CaseCount.aspx says 20 and 12. http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/ says 21 and 13.

If possible, find out which is correct and fix the other article. If not possible to determine correct figures, then put both sets of figures ("20 or 21" for global total; "12 or 13" for Afghanistan) in both article and tag them with a note saying that there is a discrepancy between WHO and the other source.

Issue 2:

Article lead gives figures for 2016 but not for 2017. After determining correct figures to use for 2017, please update article lead to include them. 47.139.44.60 (talk) 06:26, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]