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In October 1914, remaining endemic countries. We are on
Jonas Salk was born track to achieve full eradication by 2018 –
– a man who would if we can keep up the momentum that has
change world history brought us this far. And this month, we will
by inventing the first mark World Polio Day on 24 October, and
e f f e c t i v e v a c c i n e celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dr. Salk's
against polio. When the birth.
vaccine was introduced I ask you all to Light Up Rotary this
in the United States month by doing whatever you can to shine
in the 1950s, polls a spotlight on our eff orts to eradicate polio.
indicated that polio was one of the nation's Call your government offi cials and let
two greatest fears, second only to the fear them know that polio eradication matters
of atomic war. And with good reason: In the to you. Go to endpolionow.org for inspiring
1952 U.S. polio epidemic, 58,000 cases stories about Rotary's work, and share
were reported, with 3,145 deaths and them on social media. And make the best
21,269 instances of permanent, disabling investment you'll ever make, by donating to
paralysis. Globally, polio paralyzed or killed polio eradication right on the endpolionow.
up to half a million people every year. org website and earning a two-to-one match
Soon after the Salk vaccine was on your contribution from the Bill & Melinda
created, Albert Sabin developed an oral Gates Foundation.
version, allowing tremendous numbers of When we eradicate polio – and we will
children to be immunized quickly, safely, – we'll have brought the world into a better
and inexpensively. In 1985, Rotary's future, and Rotary into a better future as
PolioPlus program was born, with a simple well. We will have proved ourselves, as
goal: to immunize every child under age fi an organization, capable of great things.
ve against this crippling disease. anks in And we will have given our children and
large part to the initial success of PolioPlus, grandchildren a gift that will endure forever:
in 1988 the 166 member states of the World a polio-free world.
Health Assembly unanimously set the goal
of global polio eradication.
At the time, the idea was breathtakingly
ambitious, and many called it impossible.
Today, we are closer to this goal than ever Gary C.K. Huang
before, with only a few hundred cases
of polio reported per year, and just three President, Rotary International
