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Press Release - 23rd October 2025 - Llandudno Rotary joins global fight to end polio for good

The Rotary Club of Llandudno has marked World Polio Day (24 October) by donating £500 to the Rotary Foundation’s PolioPlus Fund, supporting Rotary International’s long-running global campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio).


Llandudno Rotary joins global fight to end polio for good

 

The Rotary Club of Llandudno has marked World Polio Day (24 October) by donating £500 to the Rotary Foundation’s PolioPlus Fund, supporting Rotary International’s long-running global campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio).

First launched in 1985, PolioPlus was the world’s first and largest internationally coordinated private-sector effort to eliminate a disease through mass vaccination. Every pound donated to the fund is matched 2-to-1 by the Gates Foundation, tripling the impact of each contribution.

 “It’s easy to think polio is a disease of the past but as long as it exists anywhere, children everywhere remain at risk,” said Sarah Lesiter-burgess, President of the Rotary Club of Llandudno. “We’re proud to play our part in Rotary’s mission to make polio the next human disease to be eradicated after smallpox.”

Over the past four decades, Rotary and its global partners have helped reduce polio cases by over 99% worldwide, thanks to billions of vaccinations and continuous surveillance. The United Kingdom has been free from domestically acquired polio since 1984, but recent isolated cases, including one reported in Gaza in 2024, underline the importance of maintaining vigilance until the disease is gone everywhere.

Today, polio is still endemic in just two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, yet continued global immunisation efforts are essential to prevent resurgence.

The goal is clear: to end polio now and forever.

Fast Facts about Polio

  • Polio mainly affects children under age five and can cause paralysis or death.

  • There is no cure, but it is preventable through vaccination.

  • At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, before vaccines were developed, polio paralysed hundreds of thousands of children annually.

  • In 1988, there were 350,000 cases in more than 125 countries; by 2021, only six were reported.

  • Rotary International has been a driving force in reducing cases by 99.9% since 1988.

Until polio is eradicated everywhere, every child remains at risk.

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