Good news..Americans and Canadians fight polio..

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Part of global effort to eradicate polio worldwide
Evanston, Ill., USA, 16 February - As global health officials expect to stop the spread of the poliovirus by the end of 2004, about 200 business professionals from the US, Canada, and Europe departed for India, where the last vestiges of this crippling disease are persistently holding on, in mid Februrary. These volunteers are members of Rotary, which has made eliminating this crippling disease its flagship humanitarian program.

While in India, the Rotary group will participate in an intense vaccination campaign on February 22, which is supported by the Indian government, Rotary International and its partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; the World Health Organization, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF. The volunteers will administer the drops of oral polio vaccine to children, deliver the vaccine to health clinics and recruit fellow volunteers. The goal will be to immunize every child under the age of five against polio. (…)

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