Key facts
- Polio mainly affects children under 5 years of age.
- One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis.
- As long as a single child remains infected, children in all countries are at risk of contracting polio.
- Failure to eradicate polio from these last remaining strongholds could result in a global resurgence of the disease.
- In most countries, the global effort has expanded capacities to tackle other infectious diseases by building effective surveillance and immunization systems.
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You can also listen to Bill Gates' talk about the fight against Polio.
Or for more facts and figures on what national governments, WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF United have been doing click here.