The Disease
Our efforts against polio are 2nd time in history that a disease affecting humans has been eradicated. This other disease was eradicated in 1980.
What is smallpox?
Reason babies under 6 months don't contract polio.
What is mother's immunity?
This is the ratio the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matches money raised by Rotary to fight polio.
What is 2 to 1?
This is the number of wild polio cases in 2017.
What is 22?
These original polio vaccine developers donated their patents rights as a gift to humanity.
Who were Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin?
The original name of polio.
What was is infantile paralysis?
This was the machine that helped children with polio breath.
What is the iron lung?
This is how vaccinators keep track of which children in a village have been immunized.
What is a purple pinkie?
This is the first country where Rotary eradicated polio.
What is the Philippines?
This president of the United States was stricken with polio.
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Poliovirus destroys cells in this "rope" like anatomic structure.
What is the spinal cord.
The year polio was eradicated in Europe.
What is 2002?
This is what nations must do to be certified as "polio free."
What is going three years with no new cases of polio?
Polio is an an abbreviation for this term.
What is poliomyelitis?
These three countries have yet to be declared polio free.
What are Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan?
The most devastating symptom of polio.
What is permanent paralysis.
The largest private-sector public health initiative.
What is Rotary's Polio Plus?
This is how many types of poliovirus there are.
What is three?
This organization was founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, to combat polio.
What is the March of Dimes?
This person shares Jonas Salk's birthday, October 28th, and "programmed" to partner with Rotary to eliminate polio.
Who is Bill Gates?
This 2017 movie in which Robin Cavendish contracts polio at the age of 28 and is given months to live.
What is Breathe?
This partner to eradication polio goes by the acronym of UNICEF.
What is the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.