End polio now.

Umar also has polio.

She was vaccinated against polio.

This is the polio virus.

This is a polio vaccine.

So in the polio example we'll look at rates of polio in a certain sample.

At even stronger rates than Polio.

We're not trying to control polio.

With polio it's almost completely different.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

No fear, no agony. Polio puff, gone.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952.

What about polio? Let's have that. Why not?

We didn't have polio in this country yesterday.

(Video) Jon Stewart Where is polio still active?

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

This may be the year we eradicate polio.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

He was struck with polio when he was five.

But first, let's start with the polio vaccine studies.

But the reality is that polio still exists today.

The reality of polio today is something very different.

Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

Paul Offit ... Vaccine allowed us to eliminate polio virus.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

Why? Because we don't have polio. And you know what?

Twenty years later, they succeeded and developed the polio vaccine.

And Afghanistan, Afghanistan, we think has probably stopped polio repeatedly.

I was just in India working on the polio program.

So the rate, rate of polio was cut in, in half.

Diphtheria, rubella, polio ... does anyone even know what those things are?

She wasn't going to vaccinate her kid against polio, no way.

They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic.

But the key to eradicating polio is early detection, early response.

And polio, I think, is one of the most powerful examples.

We've seen a 99 percent reduction in polio in 20 years.

The polio surveillance program is four million people going door to door.

Within a couple of years, every country that started polio eradication rapidly eradicated all three of their polio viruses, with the exception of four countries that you see here.

Because unlike polio, we couldn't get right to the heart of the matter.

One is a classic, the Salk Vaccine trials to eradicate polio in the