The January 14 issue of TIME Magazine includes a powerful feature on the progress, urgency, and serious challenges of ending polio and creating a world where no child has to be threatened by this debilitating disease. (Full text available by subscription
only). The reporter, Jeff Kluger, has been following polio for years and wrote a book about the disease: Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio.

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Today was a great day in the global initiative to end polio forever. For the first time in three years, 32,641 children living in the Tirah Valley (near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border), received life-saving polio vaccines and protection against other
vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.

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Everyone has a hero and different definitions of heroes. To me, a hero is someone who applies his or her courage and bravery to do what is right to benefit others. Sometimes these heroes are well-known public figures like Nelson Mandela, sometimes they are someone in your personal life like your mother, and sometimes they are someone you’ve never met—like a frontline vaccinator in Pakistan.

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