摘要：In September 1988, the thirty-ninth session of the WorldHealth Organization's (WHO) Regional Committee for theWestern Pacific adopted a resolution calling for theeradication of poliomyelitis in the Region by the year 2000.1Australia, along with other countries of the Western PacificRegion, is now moving rapidly towards the certification ofpoliomyelitis eradication. If all countries within the Regionprovide evidence consistent with the absence of indigenouswild poliovirus for three consecutive years under conditionsof high quality surveillance, the Region can be certified aspoliomyelitis-free
