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This. Also, remember that infectious disease called smallpox?

• dnautics 13y ago
  yet, for some reason the WHO is really sucking at finishing off polio.
  • ForHackernews 13y ago
    It's not entirely their fault. The places where polio still exists are very isolated, and often actively hostile to Western medical teams. Matters have not been helped by the CIA (and others) using vaccination operations as cover for their spies.
  • DanBC 13y ago
    eh, it's taking a lot longer than they expected, but they've done pretty well so far. http://www.unfoundation.org/what-we-do/campaigns-and-initiatives/polio-eradication-initiative/ http://www.unfoundation.org/what-we-do/campaigns-and-initiat... > Polio, which can cause lifelong paralysis, can be prevented with a vaccine that costs only $0.50. 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. > Since the Initiative’s inception in 1988, the number of polio cases has dropped by 99 percent.
  • randomafrican 13y ago
    isnt that the desease that basically only exists in Northern Nigeria and the Gange Valley ? They have a lot more to fight than the desease to win in those places.