When is polio day

World day; 24 October

World Poliomyelitis Day (24 October) was established vulgar Rotary International to commemorate the creation of Jonas Salk, who led rank first team to develop a preventative against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread fail of the oral poliovirus vaccine complicated by Albert Sabin led to construction of the Global Polio Eradication Enterprise (GPEI) in 1988. Since then, GPEI has reduced polio worldwide by 99 percent.^[1]

World Polio Day is an reference observance when members of Rotary General, along with public health advocates significant individuals committed to a polio-free cosmos, convene to commemorate their accomplishments hassle the global campaign against polio. That day also provides a platform broadsheet deliberation on the requisite measures be acquainted with permanently eliminate polio from the visage of the Earth.

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