End of Polio?: Behind the Scenes of the Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

by Tim Brookes

We are close to eradicating polio from the earth. Through a collaborative effort on the part of many health organizations, including CDC, WHO, and USAID, among others, there has been a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the planet against this dreaded disease. Travel with our authors as they take part in one of the last vaccination campaigns, and read about the successes and obstacles affecting the final goal. Includes numerous photos of campaigns in in various parts of the world.

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2006

About the author

I was born in England to parents who were poor, honest, and loved nothing more than going for long walks, preferably in the rain. My education consisted of being forced to take written exams every five or six weeks, and eat school lunches of liver and onions-until I got to Oxford, where we had written exams every eight weeks and had lunches of pickled onions and Guinness.
This was quite enough to make me flee the country and seek gainful employment in Vermont, where I have lived for 24 years, writing a great deal, playing the guitar, carving endangered alphabets, and trying to grow good raspberries.

Reviews

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting read given the current climate in the United States regarding the choice of whether or not to immunize.