Polio is a virus primarily affecting young children, causing paralysis and limb atrophy. The last recorded case in the UK was over 20 years ago, and immunization efforts led by Rotary since 1985 have protected two billion children, significantly reducing polio cases worldwide. There is a simple treatment to prevent polio, and donations can help vaccinate multiple children.

2. > What is Polio?
It’s a virus that you
can catch like a
cold

3. > What is Polio?
And it
does
this

4. > What is Polio?
It ‘withers’ limbs

5. > What is Polio?
…and
causes
paralysis

6. > What is Polio?
It mainly attacks
young children

8. > What is Polio?
The last recorded case
in the UK was more
than 20 years ago

9. Me, age 7, in hospital being treated for polio
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10. > What is Polio?
Iron lungs used to
be used to save
young lives

11. > What is Polio?

12. > What is Polio?

13. A polio patient being placed
in an iron lung, 1938.
60 years in an iron lung

15. Is there a cure
for Polio?

16. > Is there a cure for Polio?
YES…
A very simple
treatment
gives protection

17. > Is there a cure for Polio?

18. > Is there a cure for Polio?
Rotary started
immunising the
world’s children
in 1985

19. Two billion children have been
protected and the number of
countries with polio has fallen
from 125 to just 4

20. Progress in Polio Eradication
In 1985 there were less than 1,500 cases inday
2008 1,000 new cases every a year

22. Purple Crocuses

23. Giving £1 will
immunise more
than five children