Global Campaign Seeks to End Polio: World Health Effort Is Largest Ever - 1999

Washington Post story by David Brown Dec 10 1999. Polio, the world's great crippler of children, will survive into the next century. But if all goes well, it will also be the new millennium's first great casualty. Over the next 12 months, an international effort will attempt to drive polio into the most exclusive category of human disease--those eradicated from Earth. The list has one item: smallpox. The campaign against this disease, launched in 1988 and coordinated by the World Health Organization, is the largest public health endeavor ever undertaken. ...