So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

And in that paralysis, of course, our capacity for compassion is also paralyzed.

And the next thing is paralysis.

Immunization against children's paralyses

You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions.

It's just a reality of anesthesia. The lungs can be paralyzed.

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

Now, why would a phantom limb be paralyzed?

You cannot selectively numb.

Now, why do you get a paralyzed phantom limb?

It was a paralyzed phantom arm.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

A joint polio and measles appeal brought capacity and results.

And one of the ways we deal with it is we numb vulnerability.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

But when we were looking at the case sheets, what we found was, these people with the paralyzed phantom limbs, the original arm was paralyzed because of the peripheral nerve injury.

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.

You see, the scale of the suffering numbs us into a kind of indifference.

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

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.

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

The phantom limb they'll say, But doctor, the phantom limb is paralyzed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And you know, we have a society, a world, that is paralyzed by fear.

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

We numb vulnerability when we're waiting for the call.

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 epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

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.

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.

The problem is and I learned this from the research that you cannot selectively numb emotion.

Through intensive preventive medicine and immunization, polio was eradicated in 2001. The next target was the elimination of measles by 2005.

The other thing we do is we make everything that's uncertain certain.

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

One of the things that I think we need to think about is why and how we numb.

And I'm happy to say only one other person in that area got polio.

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