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below: The global eradication of poliomyelitis is a public
health effort to eliminate all cases of poliomyelitis (polio)
infection around the world. The global effort, begun in 1988 and
led by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Rotary
Foundation, has reduced the number of annual diagnosed cases
from the hundreds of thousands to 291 in 2012 - a 99.9%
reduction. Of the 3 types of polio, the last recorded wild case
of type 2 was in 1999. The last recorded case of type 3 was on
11 November 2012. All reported cases since 11 November 2012 have
been of type 1. If polio is the next disease to be successfully
eradicated, this will represent only the third time t