Blogs Posts in Polio Day category; 4 blog posts

Call for renewed global commitment on World Polio Day

Monday marks World Polio Day, a day set aside to remember the disease that threatens children with paralysis, sometimes even death. Twenty years ago, polio killed or paralysed 350,000 children each year worldwide. Since then, lifesavin [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

USAID Commemorates World Polio Day

Development of a polio vaccine is one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th Century. Before the Salk vaccine in 1955, polio spread through the entire world. In the United States alone, outbreaks left tens of thousands pe [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

World Polio Day

Rotary International is known throughout the world as the organization dedicated to the eradication of this horrid disease. With the very generous help of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary is well on its way to success. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

World Polio Day Observed by a Go at a World Record

The staff and residents of Golborne House on the Derby Road at Golborne saw an exciting event on the occasion of World Polio Day. A team of volunteers ranging from the residents of the house to staffers and Rotarians were a part of an at [...]