Citiraj:
Importations: wild polioviruses from Nigeria and India have frequently been exported to polio-free areas, often
causing multiple case outbreaks. Between 1 January 2003 and 10 October 2006, 68 separate importation events
affected 24 previously polio-free countries, resulting in over 1400 cases of polio globally, and costing more than
US $450 million, in external funding alone, to bring under control. The risk of an importation is greatest for those
countries immediately neighbouring a polio endemic area, however, long distance WPV exportations from endemic
areas in the past 4 years have caused more than 700 of the importation associated polio cases and cost more than
US $150 million to control.
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Citiraj:
World Health Organisation and public health authority records show that 175 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis were imported to industrialised countries between 1975 and 1984. Detailed case reports were therefore analysed to identify characteristic features associated with acquisition of the infection. Of the 175 cases, 96 (55%) were diagnosed in foreign workers or their families, 47 (27%) in nationals travelling on holiday or business, 11 (6%) in immigrants, and 21 (12%) either in contacts who had not travelled or in unclassified groups.
Osobno ne poznam niti jednu od tih osoba koje su donijele polio s putovanja, pa ti ne mogu reči njihova imena.