Can a businessmen’s club eradicate polio from the world?
Ii is a year since the last case of polio was diagnosed in India.
That is not enough to pronounce the country polio-free—three clear years
are the conventional period required for that to happen. But it is a
good start. And if India really is clear, then what was once a global
scourge will now be endemic to a mere three countries: Afghanistan,
Nigeria and Pakistan. The number of people infected, meanwhile, has
dropped from 350,000 in 1988 to 650 last year.
All this is in large part thanks to the efforts of Rotary International. Read more ...
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