There is good news – also posted elsewhere on the Forum – about polio vaccination plans for the Philippines :-


http://sanofipasteur.com/en/Document...%206%20Oct.pdf


The last polio case in the Philippines was over 20 years ago, and in the late 1990’s in the UK. There is no cure, which is why vaccination continues in the UK, for the past decade as the inactivated injectable type now being introduced in the Philippines. There are many people living now who survived polio when they were younger ( around 120,000 in the UK ).


Of historical interest in a separate thread, there is a link about Mabini, a hero of the Philippines anti-colonial struggles, one of many who lived with lifelong disabilities due to polio ( #15, http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....-and-banknotes ).


The last countries in the world to be affected by polio are Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, with epidemics in the past year affecting Syria and Somalia.