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This disease was eradicated in 1980.

What is smallpox?

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Reason babies under 6months don't contract polio.
What is mother's immunity?
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This is how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matches money raised by Rotary to fight polio.
What is 2 to 1?
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This is the number of new polio cases this year as of October 2017.
What is 12? 7 in Afghanistan and 5 in Pakistan. this is a 70% reduction from 2016,
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Developers of the polio vaccine who rather than patent their work donated their rights as a gift to humanity.
Who were Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin?
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Polio is incurable so this is the only answer.
What is prevention by immunization?
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Ways towns in the U.S. reacted to outbreaks of polio.
What was closing public pools, theaters and community events?
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This was the machine that helped children with polio breath.
What is the iron lung?
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This is how volunteer vaccine administrators keep track of which children have been vaccinated.
What is a purple pinkie?
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This is the first country where Rotary eradicated polio.
What is the Philippines?
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United States has been polio free since this year.
What is 1979?
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The president of the United States had been stricken with polio.
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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Reasons tackling the last 1% of polio cases has still proved to be difficult.
What are conflict, political instability, hard-to-reach populations, and poor infrastructure which continue to pose challenges to eradicating the disease.
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The year polio was eradicated in Europe.
What is 2002?
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This is what nations must do to be certified as "polio free".
What is going three years with no new cases of polio?
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It's nickname is polio.
What is poliomyelitis?
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Today, there are only three countries that have never stopped transmission of the wild poliovirus.
What are Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan?
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The Initial symptoms of polio.
What are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck, and pain in the limbs. In a small proportion of cases, the disease causes paralysis, which is often permanent.
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The number of new cases of polio in the year 1988 when Rotary committed to its worldwide eradication.
What is 350,000?
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The first and largest internationally coordinated private-sector support of a public health initiative with an initial fundraising target of $120 million and a goal of vaccinating all of the world's children by 2005.
What is Rotary's Polio Plus?
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This is how many types of poliovirus there are.
What is three?
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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?
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Coincidentally, Jonas Salk and Bill Gates have something more than a passion to fight polio in common: Both share the same birth date.
What is October 28th?
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New movie coming out soon in which Robin Cavendish contracts polio at the age of 28, is confined to a bed and given only months to live. Then with help from his family and inventor Teddy Hall, Cavendish devotes the rest of his life to help fellow patients and the disabled.
What is Breathe?
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These organizations joined with Rotary to tackle global polio eradication through the mass vaccination of children.
What is The Global Polio Eradication Initiative? Formed in 1988, it is a public-private partnership that includes Rotary, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and governments of the world.