We are close to eradicating a human disease for only the second time in history. A global public-private partnership has reduced the poliovirus caseload by 99.9% over the last 30 years, but there’s still plenty of work to do.
A health worker administers the oral polio vaccine during a door-to-door immunization campaign outside Lucknow, India.
Even before we reach that milestone, the knowledge and infrastructure built to fight polio is being repurposed to take on other global challenges… Read more.