There is no cure for polio. Yet this highly infectious and debilitating disease – which mainly affects young children and can cause lifelong paralysis – can be prevented with a vaccine that costs only $0.60.
In the 1980s, polio paralyzed at least 1,000 children every day all over the world. But today, after international efforts to immunize every child everywhere, 5 million people are walking who would otherwise be paralyzed and the world is almost polio-free.
Several regions of the world have been certified polio-free, yet polio remains endemic in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. And as long as a single child remains infected, children in all countries are at risk of contracting polio.
Polio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th century. Please show your support for global eradication of polio, so no child will know the crippling effects of this disease ever again.
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We signed “Support the Global Eradication of Polio”!
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5:16 pm PST, Nov 18,JOANNE ROACH, United Kingdom
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9:26 pm PST, Nov 17,Sara Neveu, New Hampshire
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5:10 am PST, Nov 9,Nikos Vrellos, United Kingdom
Wll give the opportunity to kids of the thirld world countries for a better future. We have to help them. We own them.
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10:57 am PST, Nov 5,Nadia Davidovich, Argentina
FOR A BETTER WORLD!!! ------ If you care about human rights and contamination, please sign my PETITION: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/clean-the-streams --------- THANK YOU!!!!!!
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12:01 am PST, Nov 3,Mohsin Abbas Pink Panther, Pakistan
Because my Meo Is Dr. and she think so.
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5:59 pm PDT, Oct 30,Anita Anthony, Indiana
So these children don't suffer.
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4:43 am PDT, Oct 27,Joanne Navarro, New Jersey
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1:31 pm PDT, Oct 25,Waqas Ahmad, Pakistan
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1:04 am PDT, Oct 18,Can Atik, Turkey
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10:31 am PDT, Oct 16,Hara Zikou, Greece
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9:54 am PDT, Oct 15,Roja Kirkeby, Sweden
I have studied to become a biomedical technician and want a world where unneccesary diseases are irradicated. It's awful and disgraceful to hear that this virus (which I am vaccinated against) is spreading in these four countries and maybe to other countries as well!
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10:08 am PDT, Oct 12,Fábio Martins, Brazil
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1:23 pm PDT, Oct 11,Christina Anderson, Canada
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3:02 am PDT, Oct 5,Gianna Beneduce, Italy
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9:03 pm PDT, Sep 29,Jennifer Sellers, California
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11:06 pm PDT, Sep 22,Name not displayed, Canada
A world free of polio is important to me because, at this time in history, there is no reason for anyone to suffer maiming or death from this terrible disease. For just a few pennies, people in countries where polio still exists, (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan) can become protected if immediate steps are taken.
Please take these steps now.
Thank you.
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10:59 am PDT, Sep 18,Name not displayed, Greece
because some people dont have money at all..we need equal rights for all the children in the world,even they dont have money..
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6:57 am PDT, Sep 16,Shehni Awan, Pakistan
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3:47 pm PDT, Sep 14,Name not displayed, Portugal
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7:09 am PDT, Sep 14,Ria Eckelmans, Belgium
Nobody should ever have to suffer whilst others can help!
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5:30 am PDT, Sep 13,Mark Hire, United Kingdom
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10:50 am PDT, Sep 10,Тоня Николаева, Russian Federation
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2:57 pm PDT, Sep 9,Cindy Andersen, Illinois
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8:19 am PDT, Sep 5,CYNTIA FREITAS, Florida
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10:55 pm PDT, Aug 31,Name not displayed, Pakistan
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9:03 am PDT, Aug 31,Bok Nongrum, India
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6:26 am PDT, Aug 26,Rachel Whyte, United Kingdom
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10:25 am PDT, Aug 25,Marcia Cooperman, Oregon
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4:27 pm PDT, Aug 21,Shelley Cattral, Canada
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9:24 am PDT, Aug 20,Zagoryiko Kristina, Ukraine
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6:26 am PDT, Aug 19,Cecilia Pantin-silva, Belgium
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9:31 am PDT, Aug 18,Andrés Sosa, Mexico
Because i care about my fellow brothers & sisters.
Childrens are the future!
I really want them to be free of this terrible disease.
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8:44 am PDT, Aug 18,Dominika Styczynska, Poland
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2:30 am PDT, Aug 18,Dana Barakat, United Arab Emirates
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1:50 pm PDT, Aug 17,Israel Tilahun, Ethiopia
because i care about my fellow brothers & sisters and i wantt them to be free of this terrible disease.
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4:10 am PDT, Aug 17,Adriano Martins, Portugal
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12:47 am PDT, Aug 17,Álvaro López, Spain
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5:59 pm PDT, Aug 16,Ashley Schultz, California
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9:58 am PDT, Aug 12,Name not displayed, Russian Federation
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3:38 pm PDT, Aug 10,June Southern, United Kingdom
Because it will mean that children everywhere will not be affected by this terribly crippling disease and can lead healthier happier lives.
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4:50 pm PDT, Aug 7,Cinthia Barki, Brazil
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4:40 am PDT, Aug 6,Maria Erica Manzoni, Italy
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5:32 am PDT, Aug 5,Supaporn Eakjindakul, Thailand
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1:39 am PDT, Aug 5,Name not displayed, Pakistan
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2:34 am PDT, Aug 4,Simos Patieridis, Greece
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5:17 am PDT, Aug 3,Christopher Helm, United Kingdom
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4:25 am PDT, Aug 2,Hina Jafar, Pakistan
Dear care 2, Polio eradication compaign globally is important to everyone of us , but i am bieng a medical doctor is more conceous about the mobidity and disability associated with this infectious disease for the patient, his/her family and for the community.
My aim is to free this and other morbid diseases for a healthy and happy society, and the physical as well as psychological/emotional trauma associated with this problem. I am volunteer if any contribution i can do for the eradication of this and other diseases in the world.
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7:05 pm PDT, Aug 1,Lynn Fischer, Florida
With available vaccine there is no reason why children anywhere in the world should suffer from polio.
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10:39 am PDT, Jul 30,James Voykin, Canada
Sirs, please aid in the fight to put an end to Polio. Thaks,,,,,,,
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9:57 am PDT, Jul 28,CHAPENOIRE LISE, France
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9:31 am PDT, Jul 27,Ian Hainsworth, Australia
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6:56 am PDT, Jul 26,Karmann Lane, Australia
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7:13 am PDT, Jul 25,Timra Schwartz, Israel
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9:11 am PDT, Jul 23,Alicia De Maria, Switzerland
To have a wonderful and healthy world inspite of poverty and illiteracy. Health is wealth. If the world will be completely polio-free, then, then at least, the children in these 4 still polio stricken countries, can enjoy the freedom of being healthy and the pleasure to walk and move freely and happily. But, we need to pray for this. Let us help pray together as there is nothing impossible with God Almighty.
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6:13 am PDT, Jul 22,Jaycie Tipton, Florida
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3:05 am PDT, Jul 20,Amanda Mountford, United Kingdom
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1:33 am PDT, Jul 20,Fergie Norris, United Kingdom
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12:16 pm PDT, Jul 19,Lindsay Gagne, Canada
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5:56 am PDT, Jul 19,Klaudia Kupiec, Austria
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4:42 pm PDT, Jul 17,Iva Dimanovska, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of
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9:09 am PDT, Jul 17,DENA HARRIS, Georgia
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11:05 am PDT, Jul 16,Emanuela Diana Vasvary, Romania
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2:55 am PDT, Jul 15,Radek Bezvoda, Slovakia
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11:06 pm PDT, Jul 14,Stefan Vasile, Romania
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9:38 pm PDT, Jul 14,Adriana Chavez, California
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11:11 am PDT, Jul 14,Milca Alejandra Sepulveda Gallardo, Spain
Because every children have the right to grow up healthy
