Final Push to Eradicate Polio

Today's Wall Street Journal (27 Nov 07) has a news item on page D2 about the international effort to eradicate Polio. The (Bill and Melinda) Gates Foundation has given Rotary International $100 million dollars to boost immunizations in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. Rotary has promised to match this amount over the next three years. Rotary International has been involved in the eradication of Polio for twenty years. In 1988 there were300,000 cases reported and last year 1997 cases. Almost all of these cases came from the four countries mentioned.