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Columbia club joins Rotarians worldwide to combat polio Vaccination is effective, but there is still no known cure for the dread disease By George Kolbenschlag News from Columbia Rotary Club Columbia Rotarians have joined hundreds of thousands of Rotarians from across the globe in support of Rotary's PolioPlus program. In 1985 Rotary International made a commitment to end this debilitating disease worldwide. More than 1.2 million Rotarians in 30,000 Rotary clubs located in 200 countries have joined together to raise more than $900 Million in the effort to stamp out polio. Joining with UNICEF, the World Health Organization and businesses, foundations and individuals from across the globe over two billion children have been immunized against this often fatal or disabling disease since the program began. The number of polio cases has declined 99% worldwide. While many Rotary clubs from the United States send members overseas to help organize clinics and administer the vaccine, our local club has been unable to help in that way. However the Columbia club has made a commitment to make a significant dollar contribution to the PolioPlus program. Poliomyelitis remains endemic in only four countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nigeria. But polio is highly contagious, and with the increased interchange among all countries, as long as the polio virus remains loose we are all vulnerable. It is true that polio has all but disappeared in this country, but the vast majority of our citizens are no longer immune to the disease because the vaccine is no longer routinely administered in the United States. In the last major epidemic in this country (in 1952) over 58,000 people, almost all young children, contracted the disease. Over 3,000 of those died, and 21,000 more were left mildly to severely paralyzed. The vaccine is effective, but there still is no cure for polio. This story was posted on 2011-02-11 11:30:08
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