(13 quotes found)
“We're not talking about polio or smallpox. Those diseases were hard to eradicate. We're talking about nutritional diseases. This should be a no-brainer. Provide access to better food and the disease will go away.”
Christopher Wanjek
“The new approach is a more rapid approach because polio is considered a public health emergency of international importance. In an interconnected world, these viruses travel easily and don't respect international borders.”
David Heymann
“Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue.”
“Over a year has passed since the last sample of polio was found here. We can safely say that we have successfully eradicated polio in Egypt.”
Faten Kamel
“Egypt's battle against polio has been long. But the level of campaigning has been such that we have at last reaped the benefits.”
“The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,”
Siti Fadillah Supari
“There is a rapid test for polio and all those results are negative.”
Graham Pollett
“It would be very hard for polio to gain a foothold here in Middlesex-London.”
“However, these cases do serve to underscore the importance of making sure your immunizations are up to date for polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases,”
Harry Hull
“We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.”
John Trojanowski
