Polio
in sentence
357 examples of Polio in a sentence
He was sitting outside of the road, watching one of these
polio
campaigns unfold, and a few months later he wrote: "This is foreign aid at its most heroic."
This is a group whose million-strong army of volunteers have been working to eradicate
polio
for over 20 years.
Within a couple of years, every country that started
polio
eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their
polio
viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.
And at the same time, the
polio
eradication program has been working to help with a lot of other areas.
But the most exciting thing that the
polio
eradication program has been doing has been to force us, the international community, to reach every single child, every single community, the most vulnerable people in the world, with the most basic of health services, irrespective of geography, poverty, culture and even conflict.
And then, in one of the most important, tenacious and toughest reservoirs of the
polio
virus in the world, we found that our vaccine was working half as well as it should have.
The brutal truth is, if we don't have the will or the skill, or even the money that we need to reach children, the most vulnerable children in the world, with something as simple as an oral
polio
vaccine, then pretty soon, more than 200,000 children are again going to be paralyzed by this disease every single year.
Umar also has
polio.
But you know I'd love to be able to tell you that Umar is a typical kid with
polio
these days, but it's not true.
The reality of
polio
today is something very different.
And so when the going got really tough in the
polio
eradication program about two years ago, when people were saying, "We should call it off," the
Polio
Partnership decided to buckle down once again and try and find innovative new solutions, new ways to get to the children that we were missing again and again.
And this started an incredible collaboration with industry, and within six months, we were testing a new
polio
vaccine that targeted, just two years ago, the last two types of
polio
in the world.
Now remember, northern India is the perfect storm when it comes to
polio.
In Umar's home country of Nigeria, a 95 percent reduction in the number of children paralyzed by
polio
last year.
And in the last six months, we've had less places reinfected by
polio
than at any other time in history.
Ladies and gentlemen, with a combination of smart people, smart technology and smart investments,
polio
can now be eradicated anywhere.
We have major challenges, you can imagine, to finish this job, but as you've also seen, it's doable, it has great secondary benefits, and
polio
eradication is a great buy.
And for that reason,
polio
eradication: it's the ultimate in equity and it's the ultimate in social justice.
The huge social movement that's been involved in
polio
eradication is ready to do way more for these children.
Finishing
polio
is a smart thing to do, and it's the right thing to do.
But as David Cameron of the United Kingdom said about a month ago when he was talking about polio, "There's never a wrong time to do the right thing."
Finishing
polio
eradication is the right thing to do.
Here's a great idea to spread: End
polio
now.
And Afghanistan, Afghanistan, we think has probably stopped
polio
repeatedly.
I was born in 1947, a long time ago, and when I was 18 months old, I had
polio.
Paul Offit: ... Vaccine allowed us to eliminate
polio
virus.
I truly believe that stem cell research is going to allow our children to look at Alzheimer's and diabetes and other major diseases the way we view
polio
today, which is as a preventable disease.
You focus on the possible problems, like eradicating
polio
from the world, or taking an image of every single street across the globe, or building the first real universal translator, or building a fusion factory in your garage.
This is the
polio
virus.
Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?
Back
Next
Related words
Eradication
Children
Health
Cases
World
Countries
Other
Diseases
Which
Years
Vaccine
Disease
Vaccines
People
Against
Vaccination
There
Global
Eradicated
Eradicate