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- Every year on 24 October, World Polio Day is celebrated around the world.
- Polio is a life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus, which the World Health Assembly committed to eradicating in 1988.
- The WHO European Region was declared polio-free in 2002.
- The polio vaccine is a critical tool in the global effort to eradicate poliomyelitis.
- There are different types of polio vaccines, inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and oral polio vaccine (OPV).
- In India, OPV has been used exclusively in India since 1978.
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