India celebrates three years without polio
Throughout India and around the world, Rotary clubs are celebrating a major milestone: India has gone three years without a new case of polio. The last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal on 13 January 2011.
To mark this historic triumph — reached after a decades-long battle against polio — Rotary clubs illuminated landmarks and iconic structures throughout the country with four simple but powerful words, «India is polio free.»
The three-year achievement sets the stage for polio-free certification of the entire Southeast Asia region by the World Health Organization. The…
