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Cycle to Walk aims to raise funds and awareness to forward the global eradication of polio, to educate about the continuing need for immunization against polio and to support the rehabilitation of polio survivors in poor countries.

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Rotary works to eradicate polio

by Executive Director, posted in Press Coverage - Thu, September 18, 2008

An article from the Orillia Packet and Times.

There are only four countries in the world that remain polio-endemic: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Nigeria. Asselstine said it costs $1.50 per head to inoculate children from the highly contagious disease that spreads from person- to-person.

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