Follow Ramesh's Journey

The Upper Ottawa Valley’s Daily Observer published this article as Ramesh cycled through the area:

Since 1988, the world community has come together to immunize more than two billion children. To accomplish this massive program has required the co-operation of more than 200 countries and the work of 20 million volunteers. As a direct result, last year there were only 1,315 cases worldwide. There are only four remaining countries with uninterrupted endemic transmission of polio. They are Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. These four countries accounted for 1,208 of the remaining cases in 2007.

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