Today, thanks to Rotary and its global partners, the world is on the threshold of eradicating the poliovirus that has destroyed so may lives and hope. Polio cases have dropped by 99.8 % since 1988. More than two billion children have been immunized against polio, and four million spared death or paralysis.
1988: 350,000 cases in 125 countries
2001: 600 cases in 10 countries
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