The solution is therefore not much more complicated than a polio vaccine.

There is even a vaccine for it.

The tetanus shot hurt more than the dog bite.

We have a vaccine.

It marked the latest in a series of attacks on polio vaccination charity workers. On December 18, five female aid workers were killed as they were administering polio vaccinations.

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As a young child in South Africa, I nearly died from polio.

And think of the laptop as a vaccine.

Last year alone, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative delivered almost two billion doses of polio vaccine to 575 million children in 94 countries.

Nineteen years later, Aseefa is Pakistan s Goodwill Ambassador on Polio Eradication and a powerful advocate of completing her mother s dream of a polio free country.

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Polio u0027s Defeat and Its Global Meaning

While they are a good defense against many viruses, each vaccine is highly specific to the threat.

Saving children from the agony of polio is a great achievement, but the rewards for global public health are even greater.

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An improved measles vaccine became available in 1968.

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

Because OPV is inexpensive, easy to administer, and produces excellent immunity in the intestine (which helps prevent infection with wild virus in areas where it is endemic), it has been the vaccine of choice for controlling poliomyelitis in many countries.

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Until the polio virus is eradicated everywhere, no country is safe from reinfection.

Globally, investing in polio eradication helps everyone.

Ending polio will be a key milestone on the path to realizing this vision.

But as the partners were preparing to declare Pakistan a polio free country the number of polio cases jumped to 93 in 2013.

And, in rare cases, the vaccine itself has failed and led to infection.

As the worldwide polio burden plummets, we become safer from importations of the virus.

In 2011, a polio outbreak in China was traced back to Pakistan.

Pockets of polio transmission also persist in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

Narrator A vaccine trains the body in advance how to recognize and neutralize a specific invader.

SB The game change can come at any time, because the problem we have now is we've shown we can get a vaccine to work in humans we just need a better one.

Eradicating polio will be a milestone on our path to realizing this vision.

With a new, comprehensive plan to be introduced at the Summit, the world will have a clear roadmap for creating a polio free world by 2018. The plan works hand in hand with our overall efforts to raise immunization coverage against other diseases like measles, pneumonia, and rotavirus.

But the first potential vaccine to be tested for efficacy recently failed miserably.

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In eradicating polio, Pakistan would not just play its part in eliminating the disease worldwide.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is also fostering unprecedented public health action among nations in order to beat remaining pockets of polio in south Asia and parts of Africa. In the midst of uncertainty following the terrorist attacks of September 11 th , the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, determined not to let the conflict sidetrack progress in polio eradication, immunized 35 million of their children in coordinated efforts in September and November 2001.

Following through on polio eradication by extending the reach of vaccines to all children who need them is an opportunity for all of us to stand together on behalf of our global community.

The success to date of the polio eradication program clearing a huge swathe of the earth of an ancient scourge demonstrates what can be achieved when simple technology is used effectively.

There is no excuse for millions of deaths from malaria, AIDS, TB, polio, measles, diarrhea, or respiratory infections, or for so many women and infants to die in or after childbirth.

Indeed, it appears that with more public funding, an Ebola vaccine could have been developed years ago.

The new vaccine contains a harmless virus that has been engineered to carry the genetic information to make anti nicotine antibodies.

The G8 leaders' commitment to increase support for polio eradication in Africa is promising.

India, polio free for the last two years, is well aware that lasting domestic success depends on eradication efforts elsewhere.

(d) To stop attacks on sites that usually have a significant presence of children as well as during the days of tranquillity which had been agreed upon for the purpose of ensuring peaceful polio vaccination campaigns

Adding the Europe Region to the Americas, China and the Pacific Rim, means more than half the world's countries comprising over three billion people are now officially free of this crippling disease. The will to free the world of polio was underscored at the G8 summit in Canada, where G8 leaders pledged to help finish the job and rid Africa of the disease.