SciDev.Net: Is the world on track for polio eradication by 2018?
“Polio is a viral disease that, until the 1980s, crippled an estimated 350,000 children every year. … SciDev.Net visited the Mérieux campus in Lyon, France, where the pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur works with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to produce and deliver more vaccines at a cheaper price to meet the goal of polio eradication by 2018…” (Bello, 9/11).