Rotary is giving $100 million in grants to support the global effort to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that once paralysed hundreds of thousands of children each year. The funding comes as Rotary
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Dine Out to End Polio was held on Tuesday, October 23, at Cedar Valley restaurants to support the Rotary Club of the Cedar Valley’s (Iowa, US – D 5970) efforts to eradicate polio. This is the sixth year Rotary Club of the Cedar Valley hosted this fundraising event.
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Polio is a highly contagious, paralysing and potentially fatal disease that can strike at any age, but mainly affects children under age
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In the United States and much of the world, polio is barely a bad memory. In one of the great successes of modern medicine, the use of vaccines developed in the 1950s virtually eliminated the crippling, sometimes deadly disease. But there are still a few
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The fact that no new cases of wild poliovirus have been detected in Nigeria points to
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Rotary Club members from around the world are showcasing hundreds of humanitarian projects as a Rotary International
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With 1.2 million Rotarians around the world, getting to the top is a reasonably big deal. But when Ian Riseley joined as a 31-year-old in 1978 his
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The venerable Ogunquit Playhouse, which is celebrating its 85th anniversary season is
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It was both a privilege and an honour for Diana and Danelle Wilson to first tour and then take part in a National Immunisation
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Rotary Club of Elkins (West Virginia, District 7530) members heard an update on Monday about the organisation’s worldwide efforts to eradicate polio. In 1985, Rotary launched its PolioPlus
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He comes from a modest family background; his father was educated only up to the 8th grade, and though born in the US, his parents took him back to Austria at a very young age. John’s father returned to the US, as
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