World polio day is marked in the calendar on 24th October. This day was recognized as the world polio a decade ago when Rotary International commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who was leading the team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis.
It’s #WorldPolioDay.
Look at the progress we’ve made to #EndPolio for good:1988 – the wild polio virus was endemic to 125 countries.
2018 – the wild #polio virus is endemic to JUST 3 countries.
💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 pic.twitter.com/UJP6QrFAVc— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) October 23, 2018
World Polio Day
According to WHO,
Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus, developed by Albert Sabin, led to the establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. As of 2013, GPEI had reduced polio worldwide by 99%.
What Is Polio?
Most of the people have no idea what polio actually is, Polio is an infectious fatal disease, which causes disability in its victim. This chronic disease has no cure once it affects a human. but there are vaccines which help people to reduce the chance and get protection against this disease. These vaccines are given in the early development ages of children several times so that this disease could get eradicated from scratch.
There is NO cure for #polio, but vaccines can protect a child for life. #VaccinesWork #WorldPolIoDay pic.twitter.com/6URkbl5K4k
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) October 24, 2018
There are many campaigns which are being organized in Asia and all over the world regarding this fatal disease.
Let's give children a #polio-free future #EndPolio #WorldPolioDay pic.twitter.com/0ozCWiYi7l
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) October 24, 2018
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What Is The Cause Of Polio and where does it effects
Well, this is actually the worst form of the disease. This disease affects the bones making them weak and disturbing their symmetry. This is caused by the poliovirus. There are no symptoms because there is no cure once this disease affects a person. The countries which are most affected by this disease include Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Pregnant women mostly get effected by this disease. On World Polio day it is very important to know that around half of the people who suffered this disease go on to develop post-polio syndrome.
#WorldPolioDay is a reminder to the nation that we must still work on eliminating this curse from our society
We have started a special campaign for awareness and prevention measures for it and in sha Allah will ensure Pakistan becomes polio free soon.
Let's protect our children pic.twitter.com/yrNJ7n3KUM— Dr. Yasmin Rashid (@Dr_YasminRashid) October 24, 2018
Message from Famous Personalities
There were many camps which were organized for the free checkup on world polio day in several parts of the world.
Let us celebrate all work that has been done to eradicate #polio on this #WorldPolioDay . We need to keep up the momentum by immunization programmes.. pic.twitter.com/tlpr0eA9lg
— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) October 24, 2018
On #WorldPolioDay we recommit ourselves to the eradication of polio in Pakistan,we must protect every child from this crippling disease. It was the dream of my mother Shaheed Mohtarma #BenazirBhutto to see a polio free Pakistan&it has become my mission to make her dream a reality pic.twitter.com/2Izi5WV1I2
— Aseefa B Zardari (@AseefaBZ) October 24, 2018
#PolioFreeSocietyByStMSG#WorldPolioDay With holy guidance of Saint Dr.@Gurmeetramrahim ji, @derasachasauda organising free polio camp every year. This is helping a big way to eradicate polio from society. Great initiative 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/UCe20lEcBI
— SMG Delhi (@SMGDelhi) October 24, 2018
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Now here is an issue which is highlighted by most of the people that illiterate families think their child is being poisoned not vaccinated!
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, a family refusing to have its daughter vaccinated for polio, Thinking of it as a poison and a conspiracy of West.
Time to educate these people how a disease like polio can totally devastate lives. #WorldPolioDay#WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/LGVjzslXST— Geetika Swami (@SwamiGeetika) October 24, 2018
For all those people this is a message that they need to understand the need of the time. These campaigns are held to help the world get out of this misery.
Our government is fully committed to ending polio in Pakistan. On #WorldPolioDay, I am confident, together with our people, we will achieve a safer, healthier and polio-free Pakistan for our children.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) October 24, 2018
As long as polio exists anywhere, it is a threat to children everywhere. The progress that we’ve made is thanks to the heroic efforts of health workers, governments, partners, and donors who are working to reach every child. #WorldPolioDay pic.twitter.com/LGud5DlJPh
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) October 24, 2018
Today is #WorldPolioDay! #Pakistan is on the brink of ending polio forever.
Let’s continue taking bold steps to make history and #endpolio!— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) October 24, 2018
Whereas, we all need to understand that eradicating polio is the need of this hour so we have to be a part of this polio eradicating campaign by cooperating with healthcare units for a healthy and better future!
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