Polio Immunizations

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Local Rotarians are trekking to India to fight polio  -  Feb 8, 2008
Ventura County Star,...is on a 10-day trip that began Tuesday to the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, where she will help provide polio immunizations to impoverished children.

First 5 Kern leader to visit Ridgecrest  -  Feb 11, 2008
Ridgecrest Daily Independent,Wayne has had the opportunity to travel to three continents over the last several years to do volunteer work - polio immunizations in India and Nigeria,

Nigeria: Country to Benefit from $200m Bill Gates, Rotary Grant  -  Nov 29, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The progress is attributed to a new approach launched by the Nigerian government last year, which added other health benefits to polio immunizations such as

Photo courtesy of Jenny Horton  -  Dec 6, 2007
Rotary International,It's believed that Ahmed's childhood polio immunizations in Pakistan protected him from permanent damage. Forced to leave Australia because his student visa

Rotary Club plants 90 trees for its 90 years  -  Oct 10, 2007
Long Beach Press-Telegram,Globally, Rotarians have for decades funded polio immunizations, helping nearly eradicate the disease in developing countries. The tree-planting project

Protect children from diseases  -  Aug 4, 2007
Florida Times-Union,Seeing the success of the polio immunizations there, as well as the devastating effects of these vaccine preventable diseases, reiterated to me how

Polio Vaccine Campaign Begins in Three African Nations  -  Jun 29, 2007
FDA news (subscription),UNICEF announced that all children 5-years-old and younger will receive polio immunizations in Namibia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Volunteer gave time, energy on a global scale  -  Jun 8, 2007
Chicago Daily Herald,One year after his trip to Romania, Mr. Davis and his wife traveled to India, where they helped to administer polio immunizations.

Over Nigerian Drug Trial  -  May 30, 2007
Wall Street JournalThe lawsuit says that resulting suspicion about drugs in Kano led parents there to refuse polio immunizations for their kids last year.

Matching grants for Rotary effort to help Ghana  -  May 25, 2007
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza,The project was initiated by Sue Welsch, president of Tahoe Incline Rotary, during her recent trip to Ghana where she participated in polio immunizations.

Immunization clinic Friday at Pope County Health Unit  -  Apr 25, 2007
Russellville Courier,In conjunction with National Infant Immunization Week, the Pope County Health Unit in Russellville will have a special immunization clinic Friday to provide

WHO Says Polio Eradication Within Grasp  -  Feb 28, 2007
Voice of AmericaRecently, a Pakistani community stopped polio immunizations for similar reasons. Polio experts are trying to allay these fears so that the eradication

Oakton Italian-American Honored  -  Jan 31, 2007
Vienna/Oakton Connection,After his son became ill, Salamone launched a campaign to make polio immunizations safer. "We succeeded in finally convincing them to change a 40-year-old

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