BRATTLEBORO — Rick Manganello, a member of Rotary Club of Nashua, N.H. for 22 years and past governor of a regional Rotary district, remembers parents being "petrified" about polio before vaccinations came out.
"Early in the 60s, polio was eradicated from the United States and we began to forget about it,=330/33,420/42" he said last week in an interview on "Rotary Cares" on Brattleboro Community Television. "Other countries were not so fortunate."
Polio is a paralyzing and potentially fatal disease known to mostly affect children under the age of 5, according to a Rotary International document. Poliovirus invades a person's nervous system and can cause complete paralysis within hours.
Vaccines can prevent polio. Manganello said in 1985, Rotary International "promised the children of the world that we would eradicate it from the entire planet."
"To date, we've put in $1.6 billion and we think it's going to take another $150 million to get the job done in the last two countries," he said.
Challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan include "political insecurity, highly mobile populations, difficult terrain, and, in some instances, logistical barriers," states Rotary International.
Rotary International helped found Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which involves the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rotary says it has committed to raising $50 million each year for the effort and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged to contribute $150 million each year. The funds are intended to help with operational support, medical works, lab equipment and educational materials.
Marty Cohn, show host and member of Brattleboro Rotary Club, said polio cases have dropped by 99.9 percent — going from 350,000 cases in 1988 in 125 countries to 33 cases of wild poliovirus in 2018 in only two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"We're talking about eradicating polio," he told the Reformer. "That would be the second disease to be wiped out after smallpox."
World Polio Day is celebrated on October 24th. World Polio Day was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis.
October 24 is the 297th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 68 days remain until the end of the year. Wikipedia
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