Some people have asked, "WHY do you continue to travel to India to immunize children against polio?" or "Isn't POLIO a thing of the past?" or "What difference does it make to me, since polio is not here in the USA?"
Polio, a disease that only some of us remember, now, is still an endemic disease in four countries - amazing how the acronym spells out PAIN - Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria. Until or unless we eradicate this disease from the face of the earth, there remains a good chance that it could return to the western world. After all, in this world of global travel, polio is only a plane ride away!
This morning, I found something I wrote about five years ago, and it remains true today:
Administering drops of polio vaccine onto the tongues of unsuspecting babes, as we move to protect and transform their lives, and ensure they will grow to become healthy and contributing members of society... Need I say more?
Polio, a disease that only some of us remember, now, is still an endemic disease in four countries - amazing how the acronym spells out PAIN - Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria. Until or unless we eradicate this disease from the face of the earth, there remains a good chance that it could return to the western world. After all, in this world of global travel, polio is only a plane ride away!
This morning, I found something I wrote about five years ago, and it remains true today:
Administering drops of polio vaccine onto the tongues of unsuspecting babes, as we move to protect and transform their lives, and ensure they will grow to become healthy and contributing members of society... Need I say more?
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