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Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. There is no cure, but there are safe and effective vaccines. World Polio Day was established by Rotary International over a decade ago to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus, developed by Albert Sabin, led to the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. Since then polio cases have dropped by 99.9%. The strategy to eradicate polio is therefore based on preventing infection by immunizing every child until transmission stops and the world is polio-free. On 27 March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared India a polio-free country. Polio remains endemic in two countries – Afghanistan, and Pakistan. More Info
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