Next meeting November 28, 2023. We will meet in person at Bar Siena (located in the Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center 4999 Old Orchard Road - Skokie) from 12:00noon-1:15pm. This will be CASH PREFERRED lunch and the cost is $25.00 per person. We will also run a 50/50 raffle to help defer the cost of lunch for our speakers and/or guests.
If you are unable to join us in person, watch live as the meeting will be streamed on ZOOM at:
New member, Dick Witry, will present his Getting to Know You talk.
A Message From Glenn T. Garlick, District 6440 End Polio Now Chair:
Dear Fellow Rotarians,
Below is this weeks Polio report. Your funding matters. Thanks for your continued support!
No new Wild Polio cases reported this week.
What is that Polio Picture? Happy New Year to you all! Could 2023 be the year when we reach Zero Wild Polio cases?
$ Thanks to all of you who personally donated to The Rotary Foundation's PolioPlus Fund in 2022. $
A Win Against Polio is a Win For Global Health!
2022 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 612 Afghanistan - 43, Algeria - 1, Benin - 10 (3 in 2021), Cameroon - 1 (3 in 2021), Central African Republic - 3, Chad - 25 (0 in 2021), DR Congo - 259 (28 in 2021), Eritrea - 1, Ethiopia - 1, Ghana - 3, Indonesia - 1, Israel - 1, Madagascar - 13 (13 in 2021), Malawi - 3, Mozambique - 18 (2 in 2021), Niger - 13 (18 in 2021), Nigeria - 42 (415 in 2021), Pakistan - 8, Somalia - 4 (1 in 2021), Sudan - 1, Togo - 2, United States - 1, Yemen - 159 (69 in 2021) .
2021 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Case Total - 689 in 22 Countries. 2020 Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Cases - 1,113 in 26 Countries.
New Polio Cases & Samples reported in the last week - Algeria - 3 cVDPV2 Samples, Cameroon - 1 cVDPV2 Case, Chad - 3 cVDPV2 Cases + 3 Samples, DR Congo - 1 cVDPV1 Case, Nigeria - 1 cVDPV2 Sample, Yemen - 7 cVDPV2 Samples.
Quote of the Day - In anticipation of the New Year - "No update on Polio would be complete without a big thank-you to Rotary International. They were part of this effort long before the Gates Foundation was. Since we became partners on eradication, we’ve jointly raised $1.8 billion for this work, and there’s more to come. Rotarians also lead massive vaccination campaigns to reach children all over the world. Sometime in the next few years, when polio is finally eradicated, my first phone call will be to thank and congratulate the team at Rotary International. From Bill Gates’ December 2022 Gates Notes
The Final Two Polio Endemic Countries:
Pakistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Twenty Wild Polio cases reported in 2022. One Wild Polio Case reported in 2021. The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 9/20/22. No WPV1 Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Pakistan.
Afghanistan No new Wild Polio cases reported this week. Two Wild Polio Cases reported in 2022. Four Wild Polio cases reported in 2021 The most recent case had an onset of paralysis on 9/10/22.
Afghanistan reported 56 Wild Polio cases in 2020. No WPV1 Samples and no cVDPV2 Positive Environmental Samples were reported this week in Afghanistan.
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