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

I was in India this past year, and I may have seen the last cases of polio in the world.

And in both cases, we were able to use genetic sequencing to look at the polio viruses, and we could tell these viruses were not from these countries.

Umar also has polio.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

But there were setbacks in Africa and an increase in the global number of reported polio cases to more than 1,200, after a fall to just 784 in 2003.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, led by CDC, Rotary International, UNICEF and WHO, saw an almost 50 per cent decline in the number of reported cases in 2004 in Asia.

This is a polio vaccine.

This is the polio virus.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

We're not trying to control polio.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

But, thanks to intensive vaccination campaigns, there were only 58 cases of polio in the entire country last year down 70 from 2011. And the government and international health officials have agreed on a plan to stop polio transmission in Pakistan completely by the end of 2014 a historic accomplishment that would be a huge source of national pride.

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.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

A few years later, the World Health Organization, and then other international agencies and donor countries, joined the cause, creating a coalition of official and private organizations that now support Rotary s vision. By 2006, the number of polio cases had been cut dramatically, to well under 3,000 cases per year.

But the reality is that polio still exists today.

The reality of polio today is something very different.

Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

Here's a great idea to spread End polio now.

Paul Offit ... Vaccine allowed us to eliminate polio virus.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

The epidemic affected 13 previously polio free African countries.

Delegations also expressed concern about the resurgence of polio.

Extension of cooperation with Rotary International for polio eradication

Strongly affirms its commitment to the eradication of polio from all OIC Member States so that they can contribute effectively to the goal of Global Polio Eradication.

Twenty years later, they succeeded and developed the polio vaccine.

And Afghanistan, Afghanistan, we think has probably stopped polio repeatedly.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

I was just in India working on the polio program.

Tetanus, measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis B, yellow fever.

A joint polio and measles appeal brought capacity and results.

a) eradicate polio from all OIC Member States by 2005,

Within a couple of years, every country that started polio eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their polio viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.

They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic.

But the key to eradicating polio is early detection, early response.

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

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

g) Global Cooperation in Polio Eradication Programme among OIC Member States