This week, health officials confirmed a new polio case in Jacobadad, a district in Sindh, Pakistan. This is the second polio case detected in the area this year– the other being in Karachi– bringing the total number of cases in Pakistan to six. Authorities say that, despite receiving the vaccine seven times, 18-month-old Noor Fatima […]

Members of a Rotary Club in North Carolina are banding together to raise money for polio awareness by swimming laps as part of a fundraiser this weekend. The three-hour event, which will be held February 21 at the West Cabarrus YMCA pool in Concord, North Carolina, is part of Rotary International’s End Polio Now initiative, […]

A student has been granted bail by a court in Kashmir after he was accused of spreading a false rumor about deaths due to the polio vaccine. A prosecuting officer pleaded that the student, Irshad Ahmad, should not be given bail and that the offense should be punishable by either death or life imprisonment. After […]

In a push toward eradicating polio in Pakistan for good, more than 100,000 healthcare workers descended on the Middle Eastern country earlier this week to help administer polio vaccinations. Pakistan is currently one of only two countries in the world where polio cases still exist, the other being Afghanistan, and it accounts for more than […]

Starting in April 2016, 155 countries around the world have agreed to switch from one polio vaccine to another in what is being called the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). Currently these countries use the oral trivalent polio vaccine (OPV), which protects against three types of the virus, but they will be transitioning over to […]

Earlier this month Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, traveled to Africa to meet with Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest man, alongside the governors of four of the continent’s northern states to discuss a new campaign that would help eradicate polio. Gates, along with many of Africa’s leaders, signed an MOU (Memorandum […]

On October 22, 2015, Kevin Kimberlin, chairman of Spencer Trask & Co., and Dr. Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, author of the biography, “Jonas Salk: A Life,” joined together to celebrate the work of the late Jonas Salk, a visionary who discovered and developed the first successful vaccination for polio. It was a filled theater of enthusiastic […]

Click to view images from Bill Gates’s blog on the fight to end polio.  

Afghanistan becomes the final polio-endemic country to introduce the inactivated polio vaccine as part of the biggest globally synchronized vaccine introduction in history. As part of the Government of Afghanistan’s ongoing efforts to eradicate polio and strengthen routine immunization, H.E Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz, Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan, today formally introduced the Inactivated Polio […]

The Salk vaccine eradicates polio — forever.  Come celebrate World Polio Day and the esteemed Salk biographer, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, M.D. at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, CT, 1800 East Putnam Avenue. The event will take place Thursday, October 22, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Speakers include Kevin Kimberlin & Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs. Because of HEROs like Jonas Salk we are on the cusp […]