Polio 59.3 67.4

Immunization against children's paralyses

Poliomyelitis (three doses) 95.0

Poliomyelitis has been eradicated completely.

(d) Polio in Kasaï Oriental

Poliomyelitis has been liquidated altogether.

When I was five I had polio.

Polio has been certified as having been eliminated across the Americas, 83 other countries have reported zero polio incidence during the last three years and the global goal of eradication by 2000 is achievable, although certification may only be feasible after that date

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

(a) Investigations on the Ebola virus and polio

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

I was just in India working on the polio program.

And polio, I think, is one of the most powerful examples.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

Picornaviruses these are things that include the common cold and polio, things like this.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

We've seen a 99 percent reduction in polio in 20 years.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

So if you look back to 1988, there are about 350,000 cases of polio on the planet that year.

Delegations also expressed concern about the resurgence of polio.

Extension of cooperation with Rotary International for polio eradication and extension of the Vaccine Independence Initiative

Polio vaccine BCG vaccine Measles vaccine

UNICEF continued to be one of the co chairs of the Polio Advocacy Group, whose partners include Rotary International, WHO and the United Nations Foundation.

In the remaining three countries where polio has not yet been eliminated Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria there were just 223 reported cases in 2012. This makes me optimistic that I will live to celebrate the day when this dreaded disease is stamped out forever.

Paul Offit ... Vaccine allowed us to eliminate polio virus.

Over 1 million children have been immunized against polio in Liberia.

An increased prevalence of diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, meningitis, measles and poliomyelitis has been reported.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

UNICEF and WHO are providing technical and financial assistance to conduct national immunization days against polio owing to the recent spread of infection in Indonesia.

Strongly affirms its commitment to the eradication of polio from all OIC Member States so that they can contribute effectively to the goal of Global Polio Eradication.

The country has achieved the eradication of poliomyelitis since 1990 and diphtheria since 1991, and has started the epidemiological control of measles, whooping cough and tetanus.

At the end of 2004, six countries remained polio endemic (Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan) polio transmission had been re established in six previously polio free countries (Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Sudan) and a further six countries (Botswana, Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea, Saudi Arabia) had reported cases due to importation of polio virus.

As part of the global partnership to eradicate polio, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan describes Rotary's PolioPlus program as a shining example of private public partnership. Since 1985, Rotary has committed over a half billion dollars to the global polio eradication effort.

This was the result of a polio outbreak that originated in northern Nigeria during a year long suspension of polio vaccinations and spread across West and Central Africa and threatened the Horn of Africa.

In response to the reappearance of polio in the Sudan in 2004, four mass polio vaccination campaigns were carried out in Darfur, reaching 100 per cent of the target under 15 population.

Most countries continue to implement supplementary immunization activities for both polio eradication and measles control.

It includes the cost of the poliomyelitis vaccination campaign of 5.1 million children between the ages of birth and four years.

And it would only be the second disease ever wiped off the face of the planet.

In 1988, the World Health Assembly challenged the world to eradicate polio.

Adequate funding is the greatest obstacle to achieving a polio free world.

In February 2002, Rotary rose to the challenge once again, announcing a Polio Eradication Fundraising Campaign to raise US 80 million to contribute to ongoing global polio eradication budget needs.

Polio and rhino they're in the same family, very close to each other.

I took a bunch of these small picornaviruses, like the common cold, like polio and so on, and I just broke them down into small segments.