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 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

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.

Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, retinal eye diseases are any of these conditions relevant, personally, to you?

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.

Wait, poor spinal capacity.

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.

And everything from the kidney, to the testes, to the back bone, to the fin muscle to I think that ís pretty much the whole fish is eaten.

These are people who were perfectly healthy two or three days before, and then two days later, they can no longer breathe, and this polio virus has paralyzed not only their arms and their legs, but also their breathing muscles.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

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

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

The spinal cord had breaks. The neurons were crossing in every which way.

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

He has not learned how to do this with the chest.

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

It'll break her backbone right away.