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I was born in Bombay, India, and just before my first birthday, I contracted polio, which left me paralyzed from the hips down.
Among my generation, I am one of the very few individuals in the US who are living with paralysis by polio today.
Many people who contract polio in developing countries do not have access to the same medical care, education, or opportunities like I have had in America.
It was about conquering polio and other disabling but preventable diseases, not only for myself, but for the millions of children who have been and still will be afflicted by vaccine-preventable diseases.
In the mid-1980s, polio once paralyzed more than 350,000 children a year in more than 125 countries.
Since 1988, more than 2.5 billion children have been immunized against polio, and an estimated 16 million children, who otherwise would have been paralyzed like me, are walking.
Despite this incredible progress, we know that until it's eradicated, polio remains a very real threat, especially to children in the poorest communities of the world.
And so this is my new Ironman: to end polio.
And when she was two months old, I took her to get her first polio vaccine.
She will never be faced with the crippling disability of polio, because a vaccine was available, and I chose to get her immunized.
This is a polio vaccine.
They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic.
These are people who were perfectly healthy two or three days before, and then two days later, they can no longer breathe, and this polio virus has paralyzed not only their arms and their legs, but also their breathing muscles.
Twenty years later, they succeeded and developed the polio vaccine.
And it happened so fast in the United States, however, that even just last month Jon Stewart said this: (Video) Jon Stewart: Where is polio still active?
Jon, polio's almost been eradicated.
But the reality is that polio still exists today.
We made this map for Jon to try to show him exactly where polio still exists.
But just last year, we had an incredible shock and realized that almost just isn't good enough with a virus like polio.
And this is the reason: in two countries that hadn't had this disease for more than probably a decade, on opposite sides of the globe, there was suddenly terrible polio outbreaks.
And in both cases, we were able to use genetic sequencing to look at the polio viruses, and we could tell these viruses were not from these countries.
We're not trying to control polio.
What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.
And if we can finish polio eradication, the poorest countries in the world are going to save over 50 billion dollars in the next 25 years alone.
And polio eradication, in many ways, is even tougher, and there's a few reasons for that.
The first is that, when we started trying to eradicate polio about 20 years ago, more than twice as many countries were infected than had been when we started off with smallpox.
With polio it's almost completely different.
The vast majority of people who are infected with the polio virus show absolutely no sign of the disease.
So you can't see the enemy most of the time, and as a result, we've needed a very different approach to eradicate polio than what was done with smallpox.
Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.
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