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...spearhead a global campaign to eradicate polio, said Thursday he hopes that by 2015 no...be paralyzed by the disease and by 2018 polio will be wiped out.Gates said in an interview...great progress" in the fight against polio and there are now only three countries...
...public health interventions available to prevent serious disease and death. Before polio vaccine was available, 13,000 to 20,000 cases of paralytic polio were reported each year in the United States.Before measles immunization was available...
...Foundation with a check for $5,000 to be used toward research on post-polio syndrome. Carlton's father, Norman L. Smith, who suffered from polio, then post-polio syndrome, died in December, 2011 at the age of 86. A World War II paratrooper...
...presents a $250 donation to Rotary Club of Juneau President Warren Russell toward Rotary's worldwide drive to eradicate polio, during Rotary Night on Thursday at Perseverance Theatre - a reception and viewing of Thornton Wilder's "Skin of Our Teeth...
...family migrated to California, then Oregon during the depression.After serving in WWII he was called to Alaska during the polio years to make artificial limbs. His cousin, a bush pilot, flew out to the villages for measurements. Robert custom made...
...with the rest of the Western Hemisphere, polio-free. But that didn't stop members...international organization's efforts to eradicate polio from the entire world. "You join Rotary...its members to raise $80 million for its Polio Plus program by 2005. "If we can do something...
...Juneau this week to cap a 50-state tour to promoting polio eradication. A polio survivor himself, Mutchler spent the summer touring...business in Folsom, Calif., Mutchler, 58, contracted polio when he was 9 months old and spent the next three...
...journalist Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio at age 6 and spent the rest of his 49 years...from the director's own experiences with polio as a child, the iron lung he doesn't...heroine tries to hide a leg paralyzed by polio from her new beau.In "The Sessions...
...countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America; and bring progress in addressing the spread of HIV/AIDS and eradicating malaria and polio in Asia and Africa.As always, during this "Year of Faith" the Catholic Church hopes for progress in ecumenical efforts...
...will remember when we wondered if we would ever get beyond the smallpox epidemic. We did. Many of us have done battle with polio and now that is a rare scare in many parts of the world now. HIV/AIDS isn't over yet. There are more than 33 million people...