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Child receiving oral polio vaccine

This mother was cradling her child, as he received an oral polio vaccine, which would prevent the baby from acquiring the highly infectious disease poliomyelitis (polio), caused by the poliovirus. Beginning in 1988, the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and UNICEF, through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, led to the realistic possibility of global eradication of this viral disease. (Source: PAHO/WHO, 1989. This image is from the 1989 Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Polio Eradication Field Guide. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Image Library. Public domain.)

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