Control of poliomyelitis in Kuwait.

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S Al-Kandari,S A Zaidi,

The use of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in the early 1960s marked the beginning of the State's effort in controlling poliomyelitis in Kuwait. During the next two decades, despite the vaccine's availability and use, the disease continued to cause disability and death. However, with the massive and sustained use of the trivalent OPV since 1963G and the introduction of neonatal supplementary immunization with monovalent type 1 (MOPV) in 1976G along with strengthening of the surveillance activities against poliomyelitis, the incidence of the paralytic disease began declining and by the mid-eighties it disappeared altogether. With no cases of paralytic poliomylelitis reported in Kuwait since 1986G, the disease is largely controlled. The epidemiology of poliomyelitis in Kuwait has been examined here in retrospect. The paper profiles about 3 1/2 decades (1958G to 1992G) of efforts that led to this impressive virtual elimination of poliomyelitis. In order to maintain this status and eventually achieve the goal of eradication without the rare occurrence of vaccine-associated paralysis, it is, in our opinion, necessary to adopt an approach of combined vaccination with the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), preferably in the neonatal age, followed by OPV. Simultaneously, monitoring the presence and circulation of wild poliovirus in the environment and continuous surveillance should be carried out for timely intervention.

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Journal Article

Journal: Annals of Saudi medicine

VOLUME: 14

Page Numbers: 94-6

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ISSN: 0256-4947

DAY: 25

MONTH: Mar

YEAR: 1994

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AFFILIATION: Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Safat, Kuwait.

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