An Evaluation of the Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System in Guangxi 1995

The big progress of the Acute Flaccid Paralysis(AFP)system of Guangxi has been made in 1995.The reported AFP incidence rateunder 15 year old reached 1.55/100,000 in 1994.Besides the criteria of AFP report sensitivity,another five of the AFPsurveillance quality control criteria also met the target requested bu WHO,such as rate of AFP case investigated with in 48hours was 99％．rate of the two eligible stool specimen WaS 79％。rate of the five contactS specimen collection wan 90％．rate of the specimen sent to Province Laboratory within 7 days after ollectionwas 86％，and rateofthe zero case reportwas 84％．There still is a long way to go to meet all of the criteria requested by WHO for the need of the declaration of polio eradication．And the strengthening steps should he taken in laboratory，seminar for the clinic doctor，public educa-tion and dissemination of the AFP surveillance and the polio-eradication material．active surveil-lance．zero case report and AFP Case search in the seminel hospital．