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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Poliomyelitis is considered a major health problem in
Egypt despite the obligatory use of oral vaccine for more
than 25 years. In Egypt awareness of poliomyelitis as a
publ health problem developed during the 1940s and 1950s
when increasing number of paralytic cases in infants and
children were recognized. The introduction of compulsory
polio vaccination of infants all-over the country in 1965
was accompanied by transient decrease in incidence of
cases. But unfortunately, acute cases continued to appear
later. This invited the Ministry of health to initiate
mass vaccination (M.V.C) in 1976. It was designed to
provide three doses of trivalent oral live polio
all children from four months through four years of
regardless of their vaccination history. Since
to
age
1976
several additional mass vaccination were conducted
(Schonberger, 1981).
Recently,
epidemiological
polio has shown a change in it’s
pattern, with higher attack rate in older
children, due to improvement of hygienic standards in
developed and some developing countries (Fenichel, et al.,
1982) .
So, this work aiming to clarify the epidemiology of
poliomyelitis
this problem
psychosocial
amoungest Egyptian children and the size of
in Egypt and to clarify the different
aspects of poliomyelitic children and the