In 1952, it was a good year to point out. There were 58,000 cases of polio.

So if you look back to 1988, there are about 350,000 cases of polio on the planet that year.

End polio now.

I was in India this past year, and I may have seen the last cases of polio in the world.

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.

Cases

They build cases. They make cases.

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.

Civil rights cases, patent cases, all sorts of stuff.

Madeira had had their first cases of dengue, about 52 cases, with about 400 probable cases.

And in both cases, we were able to use genetic sequencing to look at the polio viruses, and we could tell these viruses were not from these countries.

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.

Let's consider three cases.

These are egg cases

Many cases were reviewed.

In all three cases,

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.