I hate ticks!

54. FAO cooperation with OAU is also reflected in the Coordinated Multi donor Programme for Tick and Tick borne Disease Control in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.

Immunization against children's paralyses

This is the polio virus.

Yes. He had polio.

Initial activities are being carried out under projects TCP RLAC 0163 quot Surveillance and control of Amblyomma variegatum tick quot and GCP RLA 105 BEL quot Programme for the Eradication of the Amblyomma variegatum for the Caribbean quot .

It was overrun with Roman wormwood and beggar ticks, which last stuck to my clothes for all fruit.

This is a polio vaccine.

(Video) Jon Stewart Where is polio still active?

End polio now.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

Poliomyelitis has been eradicated completely.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

The government and the opposition, they have been simply paralyzed.

For example, white tailed deer living in northwestern Costa Rica host six species of tick.

But some of the ticks are closely related to known carriers, and thus are potential carriers themselves.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

Most of the population has been immunized against poliomyelitis.

They were terrified of polio, and it would cause public panic.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

But, it turns out some component of stroke paralysis is also learned paralysis, and maybe that component can be overcome using mirrors.

It's basically a measure of how many tigers, toads, ticks or whatever on average of biomass of various species are around.

Reform has stalled amid profound political paralysis.

Targeting anti polio efforts in Pakistan

Most of the population has been immunized against poliomyelitis.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

And polio, I think, is one of the most powerful examples.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

Ophthalmoparesis or ophthalmoplegia refers to weakness ( paresis) or paralysis ( plegia) of one or more extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

We're doing a lot of work with people with Alzheimer's and particularly with Parkinson's, where that quiet voice that sometimes shows up with Parkinson's patients may be the best early indicator of Parkinson's five to 10 years before it shows up clinically.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

Here's a great idea to spread End polio now.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

No fear, no agony. Polio puff, gone.

Why? Because we don't have polio. And you know what?

We didn't have polio in this country yesterday.

Twenty years later, they succeeded and developed the polio vaccine.

With polio it's almost completely different.

The reality of polio today is something very different.

Finishing polio eradication is the right thing to do.

I was just in India working on the polio program.