Polio

Rotary International Mobilizes World's Largest Immunization Effort

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 2nd, 1998

Rotary Club members from the U.S. and around the world joined forces on January 16, 1998, in India to stem the outbreak of polio - still the leading crippler of children.

On January 18, more than 125 million children were to be immunized in a single day against this disease, thanks to the efforts of a volunteer army organized by Rotary International.

Over 100,000 members of Rotary joined with 2 million health care workers to deliver the polio vaccine throughout India, the world's leading victim of the disease. According to the World Health Organization, over 2,400 cases of polio have been reported globally in 1997, with half coming from...

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