Bill Gates: We Are Closer Than Ever Before to Totally Eradicating Polio

“Polio used to be fairly common worldwide, but it is now rare thanks to a vaccination that was introduced in the mid-1950s. In 2016, the only countries to have any cases of polio at all were Pakistan, Nigeria, and Afghanistan, and as Bill Gates noted in his remarks at the Rotary International Convention on June 12, those cases were a significant drop off from years past: “We’ve gone from 40 cases an hour back in 1988 to just 40 cases in all of 2016.”…”

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