Rotary International & District 5790
Members who pledge to donate $100/year to eradicate polio become part of this society.
What is District 5790 Polio Plus Society?
President FDR, a member of the Rotary Club of Albany, NY was diagnosed with Polio at this age.
What is 39?
430 million children in total were vaccinated in 2017 in this number of countries.
What is 39?
The average cost to fully protect a child against polio.
What is $3?
This Swedish physician suggested that polio is contagious.
Who is Ivar Wickman?
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than this many years.
What is 35 years?
This "King" was vaccinated for Polio on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Today, polio remains endemic in these 2 countries.
What are Afghanistan & Pakistan?
The percentage that polio cases have decreased since 1988.
What is 99%?
These 2 physicians in Vienna discovered that polio is caused by a virus.
Who are Karl Landsteiner & Erwin Popper?
Rotary is a founding partner of this world-wide effort.
What is Global Polio Eradication Initiative?
This actress had polio and spoke at a UNICEF campaign in 2000.
In 1995 health workers & volunteers immunized 165 million children in these 2 countries in one week.
What are India and China?
In 2020 The World Health Organization certifies this region wild polio-free.
What is the African region?
These two men invented the iron lung.
Who are Philip Drinker & Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr.?
Rotary International launched Polio Plus in this year with an initial fundraising target of $120 million.
When was 1985?
This M*A*S*H* star was diagnosed with polio at age 7.
Who is Alan Alda?
In 2000 a record 550 million children receive the oral polio vaccine, and this region is declared polio free.
What is the Western Pacific region?
In 1894 the first major documented polio outbreak in the United States occurred in this state.
What is Vermont?
In 1955 this Dr. developed a vaccine that was “safe & effective.”
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
Rotary has contributed more than this dollar amount to fight polio.
What is 2.6 billion dollars?
This Mexican artist, featured in "Coco", had her leg washed with walnut water after she contracted polio in 1913.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
In this banner year, India surpassed 1 year without a recorded case of polio & was removed from the list of endemic countries.
When was 2012?
In this year, Rotary International & W.H.O. launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
When is 1988?
In 1960 Dr. Albert Sabin received the license from the US Government for this immunization.
What is the Oral Polio vaccine?