Why does polio continue to persist?
• Children continue to be crippled by poliovirus in Nigeria because too many children are under- immunized. • Under-immunised children are the disease’s human host. Un-immunised children facilitate its transmission within and between communities. • The only way to eliminate polio is to raise children’s immunity, permanently, so the virus can find no host from one settlement to another. • The only way to reach this level of child immunization is through regular and repeated supplemental immunization activities carried out in all eligible areas of the country.
