Health Check: Is polio facing eradication?
Posted by John Borst
on Nov 12, 2010
1 November 2010, BBC World Service
"Health Check: Is polio facing eradication?", that's a headline from the BBC dated Novemeber 1, 2010.
Current RI has an article on the outbreak in the Congo Republic - Brazzville area which begins
In the graphic below is an Audio interview in which Claudia Hammond talks with Rod Curtis from the World Health Organisation in Geneva and asks about how the situation is looking at the moment and if we really could be approaching the day when polio is eradicated?
"Health Check: Is polio facing eradication?", that's a headline from the BBC dated Novemeber 1, 2010.
Current RI has an article on the outbreak in the Congo Republic - Brazzville area which begins
"Rotary International and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative -- the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- are responding to a recent outbreak of wild poliovirus in the Republic of the Congo. Rotary is providing a total of US$500,000 in emergency grants to WHO and UNICEF for immediate polio immunization efforts throughout the country."
In the graphic below is an Audio interview in which Claudia Hammond talks with Rod Curtis from the World Health Organisation in Geneva and asks about how the situation is looking at the moment and if we really could be approaching the day when polio is eradicated?