The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Polio

10.14.08

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Polio

It takes more than a village to keep a virus in business.

Posted 10.29.2004 at 1:00 pm 0 Comments

74 million Number of African children that the World Health Organization hopes to vaccinate this October and November in an attempt to eradicate the polio virus before 2005

11 Number of months, beginning in August 2003, that the Nigerian government halted polio immunizations amid rumors that the vaccine was spiked with the AIDS virus

1,148 Polio cases contracted worldwide during that time period

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