Umar also has polio.

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.

(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.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

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.

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.

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.

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

AGBEF seeks to create a society where individuals and families can effectively enjoy their rights to health, with full respect for relationships of equality and equity between the sexes.

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

Add (cultures only) after Rabies virus , Rift Valley fever virus and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus .

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

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

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.

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We want a world in which every child, just like you guys, can take for granted a polio free world.

A number of dangerous infections (such as poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, etc.) have already been eliminated or brought to a few isolated cases.

So I want to tell you a little bit about what this partnership, the Polio Partnership, is trying to do.