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Polio is a highly infectious disease that spreads through contaminated water or food, usually affects children under five, with around one in 200 infections resulting in paralysis. Of those paralysed 5–10% die due to crippled breathing muscles.

Thanks to a successful vaccination program, the United States has been polio-free since 1979.

But poliovirus is still a threat in some countries.

In developing countries the oral vaccine is used due to its low cost and accessibility, needing only two drops per dose. In western countries, a more expensive, injectable version of the vaccine – which contains an inactivated virus incapable of causing the disease – is used to prevent polio.

In 2019, new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine have been reported in four African countries and more children are now being paralysed by vaccine-derived viruses than those infected by viruses in the wild, according to global health numbers.

The WHO reports that as long as a single child remains infected, all children are at risk of contracting the disease

Your support is needed to eradicate Polio in the world. Ask us how you can help

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