Since 1988, the number of polio cases annually has decreased from an estimated 350,000 to some 1,263 confirmed cases in 2004.

(c) The reported incidence of polio declined from 23,000 to 4,000 cases between 1990 and 1997.

At the end of 2004, six countries remained polio endemic (Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan) polio transmission had been re established in six previously polio free countries (Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Sudan) and a further six countries (Botswana, Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea, Saudi Arabia) had reported cases due to importation of polio virus.

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.

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Meanwhile, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative saw an almost 50 per cent decline in the number of reported cases in 2004 in Asia.

However, setbacks occurred in Africa, and the global number of reported polio cases increased to more than 1,200, compared to 784 in 2003.

Considerable improvement was made in the coverage of immunization, the reduction of polio cases, the promotion of breastfeeding and the iodization of salt.

Umar also has polio.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

This is a polio vaccine.

This is the polio virus.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

(d) Polio in Kasaï Oriental

We're not trying to control polio.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

Polio vaccine BCG vaccine Measles vaccine

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.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

When I was five I had polio.

Did he get his fourth polio shot?

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

The triple vaccination against diphtheria, polio and tetanus (DPT) was introduced in 1961 and the oral polio vaccination in 1962. The

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 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.

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.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

(a) Investigations on the Ebola virus and polio

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

Extension of cooperation with Rotary International for polio eradication

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.

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