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The Poliovirus Endgame
How can we create ways to accelerate, sustain and monitor eradication of the poliovirus?
Polio cases in the world 2012 –
Data at HQ as of 21 February 2012
2011 Annual Letter from Bill Gates: Vaccines Save Lives Animation (discusses Polio and Measles vaccines).
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