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Polio Plus Progress

January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It has been an extraordinary year for Polio Plus. This announcement was made at the club meeting on January 23 by Durham Rotary Foundation Co-Chair, Dr. Andy Barada. The specifics:

  1. Rotary International announced that we have MET the $200 million goal.

  2. The Gates Foundation $400 million to the polio cause which is $50 million extra.

  3. India, one of the PAIN quartet of nations (Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria) reported NO CASES of POLIO for 1 Year.

  4. The Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan have decided to temporarily stop fighting long enough to get their children immunized.


With this discussion of polio, which is a viral disease, as an introduction, Andy presented a Paul Harris Fellowship +1 pin to one of the world's most eminent virologists, Durham Rotarian Bill Joklik.

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