This is a polio vaccine.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

The second challenge we had was in contrast to the smallpox vaccine, which was very stable, and a single dose protected you for life the polio vaccine is incredibly fragile.

The triple vaccination against diphtheria, polio and tetanus (DPT) was introduced in 1961 and the oral polio vaccination in 1962. The

Twenty years later, they succeeded and developed the polio vaccine.

Complete vaccination is deemed to include tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, and polio and measles.

Umar also has polio.

Polio had also been eradicated in 2002 through immunization campaigns.

This is the polio virus.

This virus can only survive in people.

Some 95 of children under the age of 2 are receiving preventive vaccinations for tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, measles, and other diseases.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Vitamin A supplements will be provided annually to all under 5 children (about 30 million) along with Oral Polio Vaccine on National Immunisation Days through the EPI network.

And then, in one of the most important, tenacious and toughest reservoirs of the polio virus in the world, we found that our vaccine was working half as well as it should have.

The armed movements also abducted teams from the Ministry of Health carrying out polio vaccinations in Northern and Southern Darfur.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

We're not trying to control polio.

(a) Eliminating poliomyelitis and neonatal tetanus in 1996

With regard to immunization coverage, between 1992 and 1993, the proportion of people who had received a full course of DPT, polio, BCG and measles vaccine increased by 5.6 per cent, 5.8 per cent, 9.6 per cent and 5.8 per cent, respectively.

And there were more than 10 times as many people living in these countries.

Within a couple of years, every country that started polio eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their polio viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.

And this is the reason in two countries that hadn't had this disease for more than probably a decade, on opposite sides of the globe, there was suddenly terrible polio outbreaks.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

The reality of polio today is something very different.

They're going to be the tough ones.

They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic.

Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

The brutal truth is, if we don't have the will or the skill, or even the money that we need to reach children, the most vulnerable children in the world, with something as simple as an oral polio vaccine, then pretty soon, more than 200,000 children are again going to be paralyzed by this disease every single year.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

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Now remember, northern India is the perfect storm when it comes to polio.

Finishing polio is a smart thing to do, and it's the right thing to do.

Here's a great idea to spread End polio now.

And Afghanistan, Afghanistan, we think has probably stopped polio repeatedly.

Bruce Aylward Oops. Jon, polio's almost been eradicated.

And at the same time, the polio eradication program has been working to help with a lot of other areas.

And for that reason, polio eradication it's the ultimate in equity and it's the ultimate in social justice.

We have the chance to write an entirely new polio free chapter in human history.

The history of vaccinology is one in which biomedical and technological advances usher in the next generation of vaccines. In the 1950 s, a breakthrough that enabled viruses to grow in tissue cultures led to the development of both live attenuated vaccines and inactivated vaccines for measles, polio, and other diseases.

The Conference strongly affirmed its commitment to the eradication of polio in all the OIC Member States so as to enable them to contribute effectively to achieving the objective of the international programme to eradicate poliomyelitis.

In November 2005, WHO and UNICEF also launched a nationwide polio immunization campaign within the framework of their regional programmes.

And our big idea is that the scientific miracle of this decade should be the complete eradication of poliomyelitis.

And this started an incredible collaboration with industry, and within six months, we were testing a new polio vaccine that targeted, just two years ago, the last two types of polio in the world.

This is a group whose million strong army of volunteers have been working to eradicate polio for over 20 years.

The effectiveness of the programme runs from 88 per cent of all children immunized against measles to a 100 per cent immunization against diphtheria and poliomyelitis.