Polio Quotes
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In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
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It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.
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I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.
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Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
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There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
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The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
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Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.
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We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
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Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
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I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
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If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.
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With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.
