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Polio eradication: reason to believe

Polio has disappeared from most of the world, yet it still paralyzes children in parts of just four countries. The Global Polio Initiative has a new strategy to finally eradicate polio everywhere. They have the tools...

5 July, 2011
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How we’ll stop polio for good

Polio is almost completely eradicated, but as Bruce Aylward says: “Almost isn’t good enough with a disease this terrifying.” Aylward lays out a plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio...

1 July, 2011
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We Can Be Polio Free

Thanks to the expanding delivery of childhood vaccines around the world by organizations like GAVI, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Rotary International we are exceptionally close to eradicating polio. We...

24 June, 2011
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The polio endgame
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The polio endgame

In 1988, a year when an estimated 350,000 or more children were paralyzed by polio, the World Health Assembly initiated a global effort to eradicate the infection once and for all.

16 June, 2011
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Poliomyelitis in Chad
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Poliomyelitis in Chad

Chad is experiencing outbreaks of both wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1 – 65 cases in 2011) and wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3 – three cases) reports the World Health Organization (WHO). The WPV3 outbreak has been...

13 June, 2011
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Vaccines save lives


In this animation the life saving power of vaccinations are simply yet powerfully described by Bill Gates.
 
Source: Gates Foundation

27 April, 2011
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