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Polio 小儿麻痹症 A Rotary engine 扶轮社计划 Can a businessmen s club eradicate polio from the world? 商人组织能否根除世界各地的小儿麻痹症? IT IS a year since the last case of polio was diagnosed in India. That is not enough topronounce the country polio-free-three clear years are the conventional period required forthat to happen. But it is a good start. And if India really is clear, then what was once a globalscourge will now be endemic to a mere three countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.The number of people infected, meanwhile, has dropped from 350,000 in 1988 to 650 lastyear. 距印度最后一例小儿麻痹症患者被确诊到现在已经1年。那不足以宣布这个国家脱离了小儿麻痹症人们习惯上将三年不出现小儿麻痹症病例作为一个国家宣布脱离小儿麻痹症的周期。但这已经是一个好的开始。如果印度摆脱了小儿麻痹症，那么曾经风靡全球的灾难在现在将仅存于三个国家：阿富汗、尼日利亚和巴基斯坦。于此同时，感染小儿麻痹症的人的数量已经从1988年的 350,000降低到了去年的650. All this is in large part thanks to the efforts of Rotary International. In 1985, after a successfulpilot study in the Philippines, this businessmen s club cum global charity announced a planto eradicate polio by vaccinating every child under five at risk of catching it. The estimatethen was that it would cost $120m. Some $800m of Rotary money later , the virus is still out there, but its remaining hidey-holes tell their own story: wherecivil disorder is rife, medicine is hard. | 
