Links

• Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
• Weekly Wildpolio Virus update with case breakdown.
• Wikipedia's list of notable people who have survived the infectious disease poliomyelitis.
• Disabled World's page on famous people who had or have Polio.
• Resources from the Rotary Polio Survivors and Associates Action Group.
• Nigeria's 2009 Progress toward Polio Eradication as reported by Rotary International.
• Nigeria musician hits new high note for Polio Eradication.
• Sound and video clips on Polio from Rotary International.
• Polio Today, a website created by the Salk Institute, to raise awareness of post-polio syndrome (PPS), a condition that affects 40-50 percent of polio survivors.
• Trace the history of Polio and Rotary's role in the global eradication effort.
• Life Cycle of the Poliovirus.
  
• The Smithsonian Institute reports on the Polio epidemics of the 50's, how polio affected communities, the virus and vaccine and polio today.  Until HIV/AIDS, Polio was the most notorious disease of the 20th Century.
• End Polio Now Facebook Group.
  

Staff Benda Bilili

The members of Staff Benda Bilili, a band from the Democratic Republic of Congo, are all polio survivors.  The group of paraplegic street musicians who live around the grounds of the zoo in Kinshasa, Congo comprise four singers / guitarists on makeshift wheelchairs who are supported by a young, all-acoustic rhythm section, plus a 17 year-old prodigy performing infectious guitar-like solos on a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can. See an English subtitled  video clip of the group's song, Polio, on YouTube clip.

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