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Umar also has polio.

(a) The transplantation of human organs, since modern science has succeeded in transplanting many organs such as kidneys, artificial kidneys, livers, lungs, pancreases, spleens, bone marrow, corneas and hearts into human bodies.

This is the polio virus.

This is a polio vaccine.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

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.

This virus can only survive in people.

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.

(a) Eliminating poliomyelitis and neonatal tetanus in 1996

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.

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

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

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

Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

Polio had also been eradicated in 2002 through immunization campaigns.

g Until 1997 referred to as nephritis, nephritic syndrome and nephrosis.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

But starting in 2004, when antiangiogenic therapies first became available, well you can see that there has been a 70 to 100 percent improvement in survival for people with kidney cancer, multiple myeloma, colorectal cancer, and gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Kidney for Sale

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

So I swam through the night, and at dawn they got there and they started with prednisone shots.

The genes are forced into producing all this myelin, all the fat to myelinate the brain.

She has kidney stones.

And in the last six months, we've had less places reinfected by polio than at any other time in history.

Brains and kidneys and tripe.

In the health sector, Myanmar is now free from diseases such as smallpox, leprosy and polio.