– In 1988 — when wild poliovirus was in more than 125 countries, paralyzing 350,000 people every year — the World Health Assembly launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to help eliminate the disease through a mass immunization campaign. – In 2007 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation joined other major health organizations already committedContinue reading “Bill Gates- A short story about the fight to eradicate polio”