The world could eradicate polio by 2019.
By last count in 2016, the world saw just 37 new cases of polio. That's down from more than 400 in the late 1980s. All told, only a few hundred cases remain around the world, and Gates is hopeful the disease will become the second disease, after smallpox, to disappear for good.
"The global polio community is now finalizing a detailed plan that I believe should allow us to finish the job of polio eradication within the next six years," he wrote in his 2013 Annual Letter, adding that the initiatives should further vaccination awareness in general.
"The legacy of polio eradication will live beyond stopping a disease that once paralyzed over 400,000 children every year," he wrote.
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By last count in 2016, the world saw just 37 new cases of polio. That's down from more than 400 in the late 1980s. All told, only a few hundred cases remain around the world, and Gates is hopeful the disease will become the second disease, after smallpox, to disappear for good.
"The global polio community is now finalizing a detailed plan that I believe should allow us to finish the job of polio eradication within the next six years," he wrote in his 2013 Annual Letter, adding that the initiatives should further vaccination awareness in general.
"The legacy of polio eradication will live beyond stopping a disease that once paralyzed over 400,000 children every year," he wrote.
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