Even people were playing it for terminal diagnoses like ALS.

She said that she was supposed to be responsible for the accident that crippled her sister Blanche.

No cases of poliomyelitis have been reported since the beginning of 1992.

So by next summer, we're sighted to run out of money on polio.

And if we could do that, we could stop vaccinating everybody, worldwide, in all of our countries for polio.

91. Cases of poliomyelitis among children have been registered again (12 cases) as well as rheumatic fever complications.

So in less than a month, we went from one case of paralysis to a targeted vaccination program.

The situation of children and women. Immunization coverage is over 90 per cent, and only one polio case was reported.

The armed movements also abducted teams from the Ministry of Health carrying out polio vaccinations in Northern and Southern Darfur.

No indigenous cases of polio have been reported since 1993 one imported case of polio, however, was confirmed in 2003.

And this started an incredible collaboration with industry, and within six months, we were testing a new polio vaccine that targeted, just two years ago, the last two types of polio in the world.

Many delegations from both donor and programme countries expressed continued support to the global fight against polio in this crucial, final phase of the initiative.

Vaccine preventable diseases are being resolutely addressed, with special attention being given to polio and measles, which have begun to resurge in Indonesia.

And this started an incredible collaboration with industry, and within six months, we were testing a new polio vaccine that targeted, just two years ago, the last two types of polio in the world.

While the cold war politics of yesterday provided us with ample convenient excuses to justify the paralysis of the United Nations in that era, the end of the cold war and the disappearance of the rules of that game leave us without any justification for its current inaction.

Not a single case of polio had been reported in the country in the past three years and the number of children vaccinated against other diseases in the remotest areas had increased from 19 percent to 60 percent in some regions and from 39 percent to 70 percent in others.