For the past few decades, one of the biggest points of order for major health and philanthropic groups including the WHO, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UN, and the WEF has been to eradicate polio and make the devastating disease a complete thing of the past.

Caused by the poliovirus, polio renders its victims partially or totally paralyzed irreversibly.

As of this moment, our planet is nearing the end of the poliovirus’ reign of terror. The governments of many developing nations have helped to alleviate the costs, but they also knew that security and safety was a huge factor in making sure ethnic minorities had access to the vaccines.

Much of the anti-polio budget went towards securing physical paths to clinics.

We’re fast approaching a new problem: funding. So much attention has been paid to eliminating polio that, once the mission is accomplished, a significant amount of the funding will dry up.

While the end of polio is an enormous feat of which scientists, philanthropists, and volunteers alike should be proud, there’s lots more diseases to go, and determining the next steps in the process is vital to preventing regression in children’s’ health worldwide.

Read the full article on polio by Marjorie Abalos at Medium