Polio is an infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis and even death.
It is highly infectious, and can have debilitating impacts. While it can strike anyone, at any age, the disease mainly affects children under five years old.
What is polio? Watch the Introduction to Polio to learn more about this devastating disease.
Help us create a polio-free future for every child, everywhere. There’s less than 1% to go.
This is our chance to do something truly good for all the world’s children – and, in the process, we can prove just what is possible when humanity works together.
Don’t let this opportunity slip through our grasp.
Polio is 99% gone and we have an historic opportunity to end it for good. Please join us at http://www.facebook.com/morethanagoal, make a donation to http://www.Rotary.org/endpolio, and sign the petition at http://www.theendofpolio.com.
Polio is this weeks GLADE focus.
