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What I enjoy most about publishing Business District is the fact that I get to meet a lot of interesting people whom are active in the local business community. I get to hear about a lot of interesting initiatives that deserve media attention.
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Jason Myers - Publisher's Blog Rotary International close to eradicating polio worldwide In the midst of distributing our healthcare issue, it was appropriate timing to listen to a presentation by Jo Ann Settles at the Downtown Rotary Club on Rotary's involvement in eradicating polio worldwide.
Settles is an associate professor of nursing at Virginia College and has been involved with Rotary's effort to distribute polio vaccinations in remote parts of the globe.
Polio is a virus that enters the body through the mouth, gets into the intestines, into the blood stream, and causes paralysis (usually of lower limbs) and sometimes affects the base of the brain causing paralysis of the respiratory system.
In 1957, there were 558,000 cases of polio in the United States. But because of vaccination efforts, the last case in the US was documented in 1979.
In the same year, there was an outbreak of polio in the Philippines, and Rotary stepped in to distribute the vaccine. Three years later, they had completely eliminated the virus from the island.
As Stan Tyler references in his October 2007 article on asking quality questions, Rotary International asked the question in 1985, what if we could eradicate polio from the planet?
The results of their effort since that time are unbelievable. Rotary teamed up with The Center for Disease Control, UNICEF the World Health Organization, and as of 2007, there are only 1308 documented cases of polio in four countries.
Settles cautions, that the fight is not complete until there are no more cases. It's like the last minute of a basketball game, where fouls and time outs stretch out the finale.
For more information about Rotary's work with Polio, check out the following links:
Rotary.org
Endofpolio.org,
polioeradication.org | | | |
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