The importance of social networking in a national polio vaccine Campaign

The May 28, 2013 isolation of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in routine sewage samples signaled the beginning of the first protracted incident of WPV1 transmission in Israel since 1988. A door-to-door catch-up vaccination program with inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was initiated in the area where the isolations were first identified. Although no cases of paralytic illness were diagnosed, evidence of continued and widespread transmission among children ine from June through October 2013, 1 (K.L.) as a volunteer and the other (L.R.) as a representative of the Min