The Collierville Rotary Club recently participated in Rotary International’s seventh annual Purple Pinkie Donuts fundraiser to help eradicate polio. According to the Mayo Clinic, polio is an illness ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 27—John Ockenfels and Peter Teahen flew around the world in a single-engine airplane and lived to tell about it, but perhaps ...

The 6th Annual World Polio Day is October 24, 2018. One of the primary focuses of Rotary International is the eradication of the polio virus. There are three variations of the virus, the few cases of ...

The Rotary Club of Jamestown is celebrating World Polio Day today to raise awareness, money and support to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world ...

VAIL — When the Vail Rotary Club meets Wednesday morning in Manor Vail Lodge, they’ll donate 30 polio vaccines in honor of their speaker. In fact, they do the same thing every week. “That’s 1,200 ...

The North Coast Rotary Club is recognizing World Polio Day on Oct. 24 with proclamations from mayors across Lorain County. Polio cases have dropped by 99.9 percent since 1988, and Rotary clubs around ...

Last month, this paper published an excellent feature celebrating the 70th anniversary of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine. While the content was interesting and historically accurate, there was a ...

Rotary International marks every Oct. 24 as “End Polio Day.” Polio, or poliomyelitis, or the poliovirus, is an infectious disease that most commonly affects children under the age of five. It can ...

This is a serious column. Those old enough to remember the effects of the disease I am going to “talk” about will agree that no one should skip the solution. The disease poliomyelitis, otherwise known ...

Brazilian model Isabeli Fontana has joined the growing roster of public figures and celebrities participating in Rotary's “This Close” public awareness campaign for polio eradication. Isabelli Fontana ...