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World Polio Day – 24 October
October 26 , 2021
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- It was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk.
- He led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis.
- The theme of this year's World Polio Day is “One Day. One Focus: Ending Polio – delivering on our promise of a polio-free world”.
- Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease that affects children under the age of 5.
- India was declared polio-free in 2014.
- The 'Pulse Polio' programme of India was started in 1995 with an aim towards 100% eradication of the disease.
- The pulse immunization’ using Oral Polio Vaccine was conducted in Vellore in 1981.
- Vellore is the first Indian town to be polio-free.
- The very last polio case was reported in West Bengal's Howrah district in 2011.
- The last stronghold of this poliovirus is in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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