By: Ann Lee Hussey District Polio Chair Welcome to the new Rotary year! As our district wrapped up a year of celebrating the many ways that Rotarians served their communities and the world, despite challenges from the pandemic, we can also be proud of the amazing progress made this year in the fight to END POLIO. Rotary’s support, your support, has helped to keep the number of Wild Poliovirus Cases at bay, reporting only two children crippled from polio so far this year - one child in each of the remaining endemic countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Two children too many. Wild poliovirus (WPV) • Total global WPV1 cases in YTD 2021: 2 • Total global WPV1 cases in YTD 2020: 87 • Total global WPV1 cases in Full Year 2020: 140 |