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Polio Eradication Update - Week Ending 08/15/15
                 PolioPlus:  “This Close” ls Not Close Enough
                                                                                                                          
 Total paralysis cases
Year-to-date 2015
Last Year at this time
Total
2014
Total
2013
Total
 2012
Globally
36
138
359
416
222
- in endemic countries:
36
121
340
160
216
- in non-endemic countries:
0
17
19
256
6
 
Two Polio cases reported this week:  Pakistan 1, Afghanistan 1, Nigeria 0
 
2015 Polio Case Breakdown by Country
Endemic Countries –29 Pakistan (2014-306), 7 Afghanistan (2014-28), 0 Nigeria(2014-6)
2015 Importation Countries – 0 Cameroon (2014-5), 0 Eq. Guinea (2014-5)
0 Somalia (2014-5), 0 Ethiopia (2014-1), 0 Syria (2014-1), 0 Iraq (2014-2)
Our golf tournament is Tuesday!!  We've saved a few spots so you and your friends or clients can bring a team of golfers, sponsors a hole, or sponsor a portion of the tournament.  Your tax deductible donation will be put to good use:  we support literacy programs, youth programs, scholarships, and real science in Memorial Spring Branch and around the world.  In the last month, we sent a scientist to Latin America to work on clean water issues and provided ten high school seniors with college scholarships.
 
The Memorial-Spring Branch Rotary golf tournament is on Tuesday, August 4 at Clear Creek-Bass Park in Pearland.   The start time will be 8am.  Carter Franklin has the additional details you need at 713.882.7444 or Carter.Franklin@SBCGlobal.net.

There was an article, "Pakistan Rotary Members Distribute Free Books", in the Rotary Voices newsletter.  Those books came from our District's Rotary Books for the World project founded by PDG Charlie & Barb Clemmons.  We sort and palletize books once a month and we would love to have you, and your club members, family members, Interactors, Rotaractors, and friends join us for a work day.

In addition, the containers used for shipping the books, are when empty, being converted to Polio vaccination stations in Pakistan.  We are helping literacy and Polio eradication in Pakistan!

Pakistan's National PolioPlus Chair, Aziz Memon will be in Houston on September 25 for the District 5890 Foundation Dinner.  Please plan to attend if you are a Major Donor, Bequest Society Member, or Paul Harris Society Member.  Register on the www.rotary5890 site.  If you are not yet a member of one of the three invited groups, why not join now?  

Students at St. Mary’s Academy in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan, display the books they received from the Rotary Books for the World program and the Hashoo Foundation.

 

Polio Eradication Update
For The Week Ending 08/01/15
 
The Gates Foundation is currently matching all Rotarian Raised Polio Donations $2 for each $1 Contributed (Up to $35MM/yr)
Our Goal is Global Polio Eradication!
                 PolioPlus:  “This Close” ls Not Close Enough - Let’s Advocate, Donate & Educate to END POLIO NOW !
                                                                 14,000,000 Children Saved from the Paralysis of Polio Since 1988   
New Polio cases reported this week:
Pakistan 0, Afghanistan 1, Nigeria 0
 
2015 Polio Case Breakdown by Country
Endemic Countries –Pakistan (2014 - 306; 2015 - 28), Afghanistan (2014-28; 2015 - 6), Nigeria(2014 - 6; 2015 - 0)
Importation Countries – 0 Cameroon (2014 - 5; 2015 - 0), Eq. Guinea (2014 - 5; 2015 - 0), Somalia (2014 - 5; 2015 - 0), Ethiopia (2014 - 1; 2015 - 0),
Syria (2014 - 1; 2015 - 0), Iraq (2014 - 2; 2015 - 0)
                                                                                    
 Total paralysis cases
Year-to-date 2015
 
LY to D 2014
Total
2014
 
Total
2013
Total
 2012
Globally
34
130
359
416
222
- in endemic countries:
34
115
340
160
216
- in non-endemic countries:
0
15
19
256
6
 
 
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