Polio in sentence

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And polio, I think, is one of the most powerful examples.

We've seen a 99 percent reduction in polio in 20 years.

So if you look back to 1988, there are about 350,000 cases of polio on the planet that year.

On August 14th and 15th, they took a stool sample, and by the 25th of August, it was confirmed he had Type 1 polio.

By August 30th, a genetic test was done, and we knew what strain of polio Shriram had.

Well on September 4th, there was a huge mop-up campaign, which is what you do in polio.

And I'm happy to say only one other person in that area got polio.

Now one of the challenges in polio, still, is marketing, but it might not be what you think.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

So by next summer, we're sighted to run out of money on polio.

And I think that if the marketing were more aspirational, if we could focus as a community on how far we've come and how amazing it would be to eradicate this disease, we could put polio fatigue and polio behind us.

And if we could do that, we could stop vaccinating everybody, worldwide, in all of our countries for polio.

She has polio and leads a reclusive existence as a pop song writer.

Natalie Wood portrays Courtney Patterson, a polio disabled songwriter who attempts to avoid being victimized as a result of involvement in her first love affair, with her partner being attorney Marcus Simon, played tepidly by Wood's real-life husband, Robert Wagner.

It is about a woman who lives through: Divorce, polio, the Depression, one monetary failure after another, and finally seeing her sons off to fight in WWII.

That was 50 years ago, and I did not know that it was polio.

In the six decades since the first polio vaccination was created, the disease has been eradicated in most countries around the world.

Even countries facing significant obstacles – such as India, with a population of 1.2 billion people, rampant poverty, and inadequate infrastructure – have rid themselves of polio.

Nigeria is one of only three countries – along with Afghanistan and Pakistan – that remains blighted by polio.

Nigerians cannot hope to lead Africa, economically or otherwise, while neglecting to eliminate preventable diseases like polio.

I am working with the Nigerian government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to take needed – and long-overdue – action to eradicate polio in the country.

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan is determined to eradicate polio in my hometown and throughout the country.

The Bank provided upfront long-term zero-interest loans for the purchase of oral polio vaccines in Nigeria and Pakistan, while the other three organizations covered all service and commitment charges associated with the loans.

Since 1970, the international community has managed to vaccinate most of the world’s children against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, and polio.

I remember working at a pediatric ward as a teenager and watching children die from diseases like polio, measles, and tetanus – all easily prevented by vaccines.

Building these routine immunization systems has already helped us to eradicate diseases like polio and all but one type of measles.

Vaccines have eradicated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge of eradication, and saved millions of children from measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other deadly and disabling diseases.

Eradicating polio will be a milestone on our path to realizing this vision.

Indeed, we are seeing how strong immunization systems protect our gains against polio and provide a platform for reaching the world’s most vulnerable mothers and children with new vaccines and primary health care.

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