"Containment of polioviruses is crucial to securing a lasting polio-free world. Polioviruses will be kept after eradication in a limited number of laboratories and vaccine manufacturing facilities worldwide. Containment of these viruses is about making sure that safeguards are in place to minimize the risk of their release into communities, which could have devastating consequences."

"When I asked Bill Gates, 63, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, why polio, he began, 'Polio is a terrible disease.' An hour later, speaking to a group of Rotarians in Spokane, Washington, he said, “You know, we're going to get to the end of this and Rotary will be the reason that will happen.” Devin Thorpe