Top Five Reasons to Eradicate Polio Now

 

1.  To Improve Lives: 16 million people are
walking today who would have otherwise
been paralyzed.

 

2.  To Invest in the Future: If polio isn’t eradiated within 10 years, as many as 200,000 children could be paralyzed by it each year. A polio-free world will be a safer world for children everywhere.

 

3. To Improve Child Health: Polio surveillance networks and vaccination campaigns also monitor children for other health problems like vitamin deficiency and measles, so they can be addressed sooner.

 

4. To Save Money: A polio-free world will save the global economy $40-$50 billion in health costs within the next 20 years.

 

5. To Make History: Polio eradication would be one of history’s greatest public health achievements, with polio following smallpox
to become only the second human disease eliminated from the world.