Charlie Haden

I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.

American Musician

Ksenia Solo

I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.

Latvian Actress

Francis Ford Coppola

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

American Director

Naveen Jain

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Indian Businessman

Itzhak Perlman

I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.

Israeli Musician

Ben Lewin

I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

Australian Director

Seth Berkley

We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.

American Scientist

Jenny McCarthy

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

American Model

Bill Gates

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

American Businessman

David Alan Grier

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

American Comedian

Emphasizes the seriousness of the disease, often causing lifelong disability.

Disease Severity

Understand that polio was more common in the past, especially before the vaccine was developed.

Historical Context

Polio is rare today due to successful vaccination campaigns, but it's not completely eradicated.

Modern Relevance

 and read up to the global data and see if they match, and I think what I've taught him is to take that data and meet with people on the ground to understand, can you actually deliver that vaccine? Can you get a woman to accept those polio drops in her child's mouth? Because the delivery piece is every bit as important as the science.

Why giving away our...

 to ensure that polio will never paralyze another child. Disease eradication is one public health effort that benefits all of humanity and challenges us to work together as a global community. Beyond eliminating specific diseases, eradication programs benefit local populations

Learning from smallpox:...

 living in these countries. So it was a massive effort. The second challenge we had was -- in contrast to the smallpox vaccine, which was very stable, and a single dose protected you for life -- the polio vaccine is incredibly fragile. It deteriorates so quickly in the tropics

Bruce Aylward: How we'll...

 Sadly, it may interrupt and the polio situation might get worse a little bit because of the distraction here. We're using a lot of the great capacity that was built up for those polio activities to try and help the developing countries respond to this very well.

How we must respond to...

 Doctors thought it was a new form of polio. Since then, there have been more than 70 outbreaks documented around the world, of a strikingly similar post-infectious disease. All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women,

What happens when you...

 So in a modern society, we know that prevention is better than cure. We vaccinate against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles. We have awareness campaigns for melanoma, stroke, diabetes -- all important campaigns.

3 ways to build a happy...

 in a way that no war ever has. It's gone. It's vanished. We vanquished it. Puff. In the rich world, diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago no longer exist, hardly. Diphtheria, rubella, polio

The danger of science...

 in terms of what the emissions that come out of those activities are. During the same time frame we'll have advances in medicine of curing cancer and finishing polio and malaria and all sorts of things.

Bill Gates: The...

 child Jaisal was born so far he's received his first dose of several basic vaccines against diseases like measles and polio and even though some of those shots stung they will help protect him

Bringing critical care...

 polio and it was they didn't hear anything all they heard was polio and they left you know and so now I said well you know it's a virus that like polio but it's not the live polio virus