Polio u0027s Defeat and Its Global Meaning

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The patient is recovering from his illness.

These are common diseases of children.

The medication turned out to be worse than the disease.

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

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While taking into account all of his chronic illnesses.

Vaccinations help prevent childhood diseases.

Some mental illnesses already have a cure.

Even the biology of the disease may be different.

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Globally, investing in polio eradication helps everyone.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Different health conditions impede development in characteristic ways. HIV AIDS for example, destroys the lives of workers in their most productive years and orphans millions of children.

I got the disease caring for my mother.

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At present, the cause of the disease is unknown.

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

Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.

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Preventable and treatable diseases plague the population.

Like most diseases, it has its own symptoms.

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This occurs mainly in the developing world.

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

Countries with high levels of malaria tend to endure slower growth than countries with lower levels of malaria.

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.

Malaria poses a unique challenge, owing in large part to Africa s mosquito species, which are especially adept at transmitting the disease.

The most promising answer for the long term is a vaccine to protect against the disease.