Joe Scheimer

It is World Polio Day! Let's continue to contribute to this fight to end polio! There are now 38 cases of wild polio: 9 in Afghanistan and 29 in Pakistan, but those numbers are less than this time last year! We are making progress. On this day let's celebrate the fact that we have prevented over 4 million children from being paralyzed with our 40 years of polio vaccinations! Let's keep up the fight and eliminate this disease forever!
A big thank you to all those who have contributed! We have currently raised $82,650!
There are currently 30 cases of wild polio, compared to 40 cases last year at this time: 4 in Afghanistan and 26 in Pakistan. The aid workers are doing a fantastic job, despite the earthquake in Afghanistan and the flooding in Pakistan. We are also doing better with Variant cases of polio, those caused by the oral vaccine, the new Novel oral vaccine is seeing less cases than in the previous year at this time: 150 vs 170. I truly believe that the next two years are critical to our eliminate this terrible disease, so let's keep funding this fight. If we stop now, the WHO says within 10 years we will have 200,000 cases a year and growing from there!