Join us for World Polio Day World Polio Day 2023
Remembering Rotarian Joe DeBonis - Father, Attorney, Civic Leader, and Polio Survivor
World Polio Day message, Rotary International President R. Gordon R. McInally explains why we still need your support for our efforts to eradicate polio.
Make Polio History Website Launched
24 October is World Polio Day!
As World Polio Day approaches, we need your help to amplify our message about eradicating polio to protect the world’s children from a devastating disease.
We have made tremendous progress since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched:
- A 99.9% reduction in cases of illness caused by wild poliovirus
- 3 billion children immunized
- 125 countries where polio was endemic reduced to two — Afghanistan and Pakistan — with the virus contained in just a few districts and provinces
Let’s use World Polio Day to advocate for the support we need to make history by eradicating polio. Together, we end polio!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
View of the The Polio Hall of Fame (or the Polio Wall of Fame) consists of a linear grouping of sculptured busts of fifteen scientists and two laymen who made important contributions to the knowledge and treatment of poliomyelitis. It is found on the outside wall of what is called Founder's Hall of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia.
View of the The Polio Hall of Fame (or the Polio Wall of Fame) consists of a linear grouping of sculptured busts of fifteen scientists and two laymen who made important contributions to the knowledge and treatment of poliomyelitis. It is found on the outside wall of what is called Founder's Hall of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia.
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The Return Of Polio In The U.S.
August 24, 2022, 3:50 PM ET
The first polio case in the U.S. in nearly a decade was recorded in Rockland County, New York, this spring. Now, authorities believe there could be hundreds of unreported cases in the area.
Polio was one of the most feared diseases in the U.S. in the early 1950s, causing more than 15,000 cases of paralysis a year.
The U.S has been considered polio-free since 1979. But this latest outbreak could threaten the that status.
How do we make sure polio doesn't return to the U.S.? And what should you be doing to protect yourself and your loved ones?
CDC's Dr. Jose R. Romero, Kaiser Health News' Dr. Celine Gounder, and Emory University's Dr. Walter Orenstein join us for the conversation.
Polio was one of the most feared diseases in the U.S. in the early 1950s, causing more than 15,000 cases of paralysis a year.
The U.S has been considered polio-free since 1979. But this latest outbreak could threaten the that status.
How do we make sure polio doesn't return to the U.S.? And what should you be doing to protect yourself and your loved ones?
CDC's Dr. Jose R. Romero, Kaiser Health News' Dr. Celine Gounder, and Emory University's Dr. Walter Orenstein join us for the conversation.
Poultney Rotary is at Work to End Polio Now!
THIS YEAR WE WORK IN MEMORY AND IN HONOR OF BILL STEVENSON
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How A Pittsburgh-Made Polio Vaccine Helped Beat A Disease That Terrified A Nation
By MARGARET J. KRAUSS • APR 17, 2015 Polio is caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestine. It attacks the nervous system and can result in paralysis. Children are most at risk. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, prevalence of the disease increased.
People were so afraid of their kids getting polio during the summertime, they wouldn’t let them go to swimming pools,”, trying to explain how polio affected society in those years. They wouldn’t let them go to movies, they tried to keep them away from other kids. People were hysterically afraid of it. Dr. Julius Youngner |
Part of Bill's treatment was by using the Kenny Method.
Photographer: Jack Delano
Created: February 1943 Location: Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota Call Number (Library of Congress)LC-USW3-017557 |
DECEMBER is: Disease Prevention and Treatment Month
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Polio Now
African region declared free of wild poliovirus
The World Health Organization’s African region was officially certified free of wild poliovirus on 25 August (2020). This milestone comes four years after Nigeria — the last polio-endemic country in Africa — recorded its final case of wild polio. It’s a significant step forward in the fight to eradicate polio and protect the world’s children from this paralyzing disease.
This incredible achievement is the result of a decades-long commitment by Rotary members, working with our partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), African region leaders, and millions of dedicated health care workers and supporters. Read more.
HOPE THROUGH HISTORY A podcast by historian Jon Meacham - EPISODE 3|The Polio Epidemic, MAY 5, 2020, CLICK HERE
#VaccinesWork For All
World Immunization Week (April 24-30,2020) brings together a diverse coalition of partners to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every year, and it is recognized widely as one of the world’s most successful and cost-effective health interventions. However, there are still nearly 20 million unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children in the world today.
This year’s theme — #VaccinesWork For All — emphasizes the benefits of vaccines for individuals, their communities, and everyone around the world. It is also an opportunity to highlight how vaccines and the people who develop, deliver and receive them are champions working to protect the health of everyone, everywhere.
Join us and spread the message that #VaccinesWork For All. Brought to you by WHO, UNICEF, Gavi and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To visit WHO’s campaign page, please click here.
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Jim Ferguson ~ Rotary Club of Bluefield, West VirginiaI joined Rotary when I found out about their work to eradicate polio, because I thought it would be a way to make my mother proud.
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Jim Ferguson was Chairman of the District 7550 (West Virginia) PolioPlus/Eradication effort for about 5 years. He is now a Past District Governor.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1950, summer blew into Wythe County like a furnace blast. Motel owners looked forward to their seasonal boom. The young town manager worked on plans for a sewage treatment plant. A doctor settled into his father's practice. Children dreamed about swimming and swinging and climbing trees. In the country, a farmer lived his sixth year in an iron lung, a little-known survivor of the county's most recent - and fairly mild - polio outbreak. The Wytheville Statesmen second baseman, 21-year-old Jim Seccafico from Jersey City, started what would become the final season of his career. He was playing a game in North Carolina when his wife took their 1-year-old son, Johnny, to the doctor to check a stiff neck, sniffle and fever. Within hours, an ambulance was racing through the late June night, 80 miles to Roanoke and the nearest hospital equipped to handle polio. Fighting polio | From 1950 Virginia to 2013 India By AMY JETER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT | JUL 21, 2013 https://www.pilotonline.com/news/health/article_a9566861-da50-5916-8dfe-c520ea49a91f.html |
Paralyzed since age 2, influential social worker John Seccafico died in April 2019 at 70. It was big news in a small Virginia town that never forgot him. Read More
First Polio Epidemic in United States Hits Rutland County Vermont in 1894 |
Former Ira Resident Survivor of 1894 Polio Outbreak
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