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Comparing Israeli and Palestinian polio vaccination policies and the challenges of silent entry of wild poliovirus in 2013–14: a ‘natural experiment’

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  1. Faculte de Medecine, Universite de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland

    Antoine Flahault

  2. Centre Virchow-Villermé, Descartes School of Medicine, Sorbonne Paris, Cité, Paris, France

    Antoine Flahault

  3. Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Walter Orenstein & Julie Garon

  4. National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Olen Kew

  5. Manitoba Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Joan Bickford

  6. Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Ein Karem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Theodore Tulchinsky

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Correspondence to Antoine Flahault.

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This commentary is part of the special issue “Driving the Best Science to Meet Global Health Challenges” edited on the occasion of the 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2015.

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Flahault, A., Orenstein, W., Garon, J. et al. Comparing Israeli and Palestinian polio vaccination policies and the challenges of silent entry of wild poliovirus in 2013–14: a ‘natural experiment’. Int J Public Health 60, 765–766 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0700-0

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