From the WHP annual calendar · Sunday, October 24, 2027
World Polio Day
Awareness day for the global eradication of polio and to commemorate vaccination programs.
Idea to get started
For employees traveling abroad: vaccination status check as part of travel medicine consultation with the occupational physician.
Did you know?
- Drop in polio cases since 1988
- > 99%
- Estimated cases in 1988
- 350,000
Since 1988, wild poliovirus cases have fallen by more than 99 percent worldwide, from an estimated 350,000 cases in more than 125 countries. Today the virus is endemic in only two countries.
Source: WHO, Fact sheet Poliomyelitis
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