What is that Polio Picture? These two pictures show a tale of two times.  The first shows parents and children lined up in New York to receive the new Polio Vaccine on 7/1/53.  And the second shows the New York Health Department's estimate of the...

What is that Polio Picture? Many Rotarians are now engaged in ways to increase Polio Eradication awareness and fundraising around World Polio Day (Oct 24).  Have you considered an event like this one at Audi Field in Washington DC? See the picture...

What is that Polio Picture? Literacy Helps Polio Eradication.  I'm a volunteer for a large Books For The World literacy project led by our District 5890 Rotary Club of Seabrook.  We have shipped over 400 - 40' containers of children's, Library, and...

What is that Polio Picture? Polio Surveillance is critical in Afghanistan - Diary of a polio surveillance reviewer: eight days in Afghanistan’s west. Dr Abdinoor Mohamed, an epidemiologist tells us about his team's travel to Afghanistan to review...

What is that Polio Picture? A Polio pop-up vaccination clinic was opened in Rockland County, N.Y., where a polio case was detected earlier this summer. Health authorities have urged people who are not vaccinated against Polio to get...

What is that Polio Picture? Polio Surveillance Has Never Been More Important - In Yemen, Dr Mutahar Ahmed leads the country’s acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance efforts, which are vital to tracking Poliovirus transmission. Despite...

What is that Polio Picture? This is not the first Polio outbreak in New York.  The 1916 New York City polio epidemic was an infectious diseaseepidemic of polio ultimately infecting several thousand people, and killing over two thousand, in New York...

What is that Polio Picture? Pakistan - Vaccinators travel via camel as part of a joint measles-rubella and polio campaign in Pakistan last year, applying their skills to support other disease efforts. ©Gavi/Asad Zaidi. On 12 June, sports stars and...