We are facing our best and perhaps our last opportunity to eradicate polio.
I must remind you. We need to finish the job of polio eradication, as guided by the ongoing independent evaluation.
Medical science has the capacity to relegate Alzheimer's to the list of formerly intractable diseases like typhoid, polio and many childhood cancers.
It was not the first artificial virus; a team at the State University of New York, in Stony Brook, had made a copy of the polio virus the previous year.
Foremost among these is the drive to eradicate polio.
There is no cure for polio, it can only be prevented.
Everywhere I go to learn about polio, I see Rotary members helping out with the hard work.
In the early 20th century, she said - in the absence of any medical evidence - doctors blamed candy for the spread of polio.
The spread of polio could end this year.
Impressed by Rotary's years of experience using volunteers to immunize large Numbers of children against polio worldwide, the world Health Assembly adopted a resolution in 1988 to eradicate polio.
Nothing has been more God-like than our eradication of smallpox and near eradication of polio, but few sane people regret this.
You will be seeing today new data that show why, over a 20-year period, every proposed option for controlling polio will cost more, in human suffering and dollars, than finishing eradication.
The International Health Regulations and the need to finish the job of polio eradication were all important issues.
Since its inception, the drive to eradicate polio has been an expression of the power of public health partnerships to do great and lasting good.
Diseases like multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy or polio can leave people disabled.
Similar momentum this year should put an end to the transmission of polio in this particularly crowded corner of the world, which has proven a challenge to global eradication efforts.
The solution is the same for all polio outbreaks: immunize every child several times with the oral vaccine to stop polio transmission, regardless of the origin of the virus.
strong advances in the remaining polio endemic areas and the recent introduction of new tools have moved the global polio eradication effort into its final phase in all but one country of the world.
India and Nigeria in particular look the toughest nuts to crack of the dozen or so countries left with the polio scourge.
At the same time, however, the group singled out ongoing polio transmission in Nigeria as the single greatest risk to a polio-free world.
Polio eradication has benefited immensely from having Rotary's support. Rotary had the vision to get involved in 1985 and has kept polio eradication as its top priority.
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