Polio Gateway

Databases - Use your library card number to access these resources.

Web Resources

 Polio Resources Online

In 1998, the World Health Assembly voted to launch a global goal to eradicate polio.  As a result, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, spearheaded by national governments, the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF, is the largest internationally-coordinated public health project the world has ever known.

World Polio Day

The Polio Crusade, American Experience, PBS

Gates Foundation
   The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Rotary International Challenge Grant

HealthMap  Map worldwide outbreaks of diseases, including polio

Whatever Happened to Polio?  Online exhibit from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

March of Dimes History -- In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt and friend Basil O'Connor created the Warm Springs Foundation, which became the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.  The March of Dimes began as a fundraising effort to fight the polio epidemic in the United States.

Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation

Vaccination information:  CDC  Mayo Clinic

     Post-Polio Syndrome:  Mayo Clinic
                                        Post-Polio Health International

World-wide cases from WHO

The Final Inch
     Nearly 50 years after a vaccine for polio was developed in the U.S., the polio virus still finds refuge in some of the world's most vulnerable places.  This documentary short, nominated for a 2008 academy award, examines how a gorup of dedicated workers are going door-to-door and slum-to-slum to reach unprotected in poor enclaves in India.

End Polio Now
    Rotary International's push to end polio in our world.