Rotary-related headlines from around the world
Critical-care patients in the emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston in August 1955. Associated Press photo Fears of polio gripped the U.S. in the mid-20th…
Fire razed medical equipment and consumables at the Gombe State Medical Store located around Kasuwa-Katako around 2am on Monday. The state governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, visited the burnt store…
With the investment of billions of dollars over the past several decades, mass immunization efforts across the globe have made polio nearly nonexistent. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, however,…
Endemic countries, Financing and donors, GPEI partners We are close to making polio the second human disease to be eradicated, but what will it take to finally consign…
Paralyzed as a child by polio, Rajabu Vampise is taking his message to the streets, urging parents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to vaccinate their children….
Introduction Poliomyelitis (polio) is an infectious viral disease that mainly affects children under 5 years of age.1 The main method of transmission is person-to-person spread mostly through the…