CELEBRATE SERVICE: Rotary event to help fight polio - The News Herald

CELEBRATE SERVICE: Rotary event to help fight polio - The News Herald

CELEBRATE SERVICE: Rotary event to help fight polio - The News Herald

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 03:33 PM PST

PANAMA CITY — Polio was once the scourge of childhood, with major outbreaks in the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dr. Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in the 1950s and the World Health Organization projected — inaccurately — that the disease would be eradicated worldwide by 2018.

But as polio remains a danger today, work to combat it continues and the Northside Rotary Club in Panama City is doing its part to support the ongoing fight.

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The club will host a "Poker Run/Walk for Polio" in historic St. Andrews from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 7. Poker Run cards will be available at the St. Andrews Farmers Market for a $25 donation, with all proceeds going to help end polio. Prizes will be awarded for the top three poker hands at 3 p.m. at a ceremony at the Taproom in St. Andrews.

"Rotary believes in giving back and is investing in our future," said Ron Tenfold, Rotary Foundation chairman and event organizer, and Club President Irene Field in a joint news release. "If polio isn't eradicated, within 10 years as many as 200,000 children could be paralyzed by it each year. A polio-free world will be a safer world for children everywhere."

The Rotary Club is an international network of 1.2 million members who believe they have a shared responsibility to take action on the world's most persistent issues. More than 35,000 clubs work together to promote peace, fight disease, support education, grow local economies, save mothers and children, and provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene around the world. For details, visit the website, Rotary.org.

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The Northside Rotary in Panama City meets at noon each Wednesday at One Thirty One Events by Trigo, 131 Harrison Ave. Other Rotary Clubs in the immediate area include the Panama City Rotary, Emerald Coast Rotary (of Panama City Beach), Panama City Beaches Rotary and Lynn Haven Rotary, all of which can be located via Rotary.org.

"When polio is eradicated, it will be one of history's greatest public health achievements, with polio following smallpox to become only the second human disease eliminated from the world," event organizers said.

The Week in History: February 29-March 6 | News - AberdeenNews.com

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST

Feb. 29

1504: Christopher Columbus, stranded in Jamaica during his fourth voyage to the West, used a correctly predicted lunar eclipse to frighten hostile natives into providing food for his crew.

1940: "Gone with the Wind'' won eight Academy Awards, including best picture of 1939; Hattie McDaniel won for best supporting actress, the first black performer so honored.

1956: President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced he would seek a second term of office.

1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) warned that racism was causing America to move "toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.''

March

1

1932: Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.

1961: President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

1962: The first Kmart store opened in Garden City, Mich.

2002: Under pressure from prosecutors, the Archdiocese of Boston agreed to turn over the names of people allegedly molested by priests.

March

2

1793: The first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Va.

1943: The World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea began; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.

1962: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands. (Philadelphia won, 169-147.)

1968: The South Dakota Highway Department reported spending more than $250,000 the last two years to pick up trash along the state's highways.

March

3

1931: "The Star-Spangled Banner'' became the national anthem of the United States as President Herbert Hoover signed a congressional resolution.

1967: Mansfield voters approved a resolution to consolidate the Mansfield Community School with the Northville Northwestern Independent School District.

1991: Motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.

1993: Health pioneer Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine, died in Washington, D.C., at age 86.

March

4

1789: The Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York. (The lawmakers then adjourned for lack of a quorum.).

1858: Sen. James Henry Hammond of South Carolina declared "cotton is king'' in a speech to the U.S. Senate.

1952: Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in California's San Fernando Valley.

1976: South Dakota's U.S. Representative, Larry Pressler, announced he would seek a second term.

March

5

1770: The Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.

1946: Winston Churchill delivered his ''Iron Curtain'' speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.

1960: Cuban newspaper photographer Alberto Korda took the now-famous picture of guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che'' Guevara during a memorial service in Havana for victims of a ship explosion.

1963: Country music performers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy'' Copas and 'Hawkshaw'' Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn., that also claimed the life of pilot Randy Hughes (Cline's manager).

1982: Comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

March

6

1853: Verdi's opera "La Traviata'' premiered in Venice, Italy.

1912: Oreo sandwich cookies (originally called "biscuits'') were first introduced by Nabisco.

1962: What became known as the Ash Wednesday Storm began pounding the mid-Atlantic coast; over a three-day period, the storm resulted in 40 deaths and caused more than $200 million in property damage.

1970: A bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village townhouse by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.

Punjab reports first polio case of 2020 - The Nation

Posted: 27 Feb 2020 05:58 PM PST

LAHORE - Punjab on Thursday reported first polio case of the ongoing year, taking the overall tally in the country to 21.  The National Institute of Health in Islamabad has confirmed presence of polio virus in eight month old male child from Taunsa in Dera Ghazi Khan District. Punjab remained in the grip of wild poliovirus which paralyzed 12 children in 2019.

Confirming first polio case of the province in the current year, Incharge Polio Program Sundas Irshad said that "Punjab is the recipient of huge migrant population from reservoir districts which increases the risk of virus transmission".

"We are in the process of verifying vaccination history of ill fated child", she said, adding, special vaccination campaign would be launched in the district from March 16 to save more children from disability. 

On seeing symptoms, stool samples of ill fated child living under poor socio-economic conditions were sent to the NIH. The Lab confirmed presence of crippling virus on Thursday. The child developed symptoms on January 18 (paralysis of right lower limb).

Though the government is in the process of 'verifying vaccination history', the parent claimed that the child was given two doses during special campaigns and one during routine immunization.

The scenario has again raised the question that whether improved vaccination coverage and multiple campaigns were enough to eradicate polio as the latest victim of crippling virus has received three doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV).

"Yes, vaccine is important to get much-needed shield. But it is not a guarantee until other preconditions are fulfilled. Routine immunisation is vital. Multiple doses at a later stage are not a substitute", said Dr Abdul Rauf, a family physician running clinic in thickly populated Usman Gunj.

"Malnutrition and co-morbidities like diarrhoea, dysentery and fever are major reasons behind children getting polio even after receiving multiple doses of vaccine. These children with weak immunity fail to produce antibodies (shield against polio) from the vaccine. As such they are not immune and can get polio if attacked by the virus", he said.

"There is a need of maintaining cold chain, improving diet and monitoring condition of children before and after administering polio vaccine. Vaccine is useless if administered to a child with bad stomach or if he/she vomits after getting the dose. Proper training of vaccinators is a key to achievement of desired results from vaccination," he said.

During 2016 and 2018, no polio case was reported in Punjab. While in 2015 as many as seven polio cases were reported from the province. Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria are the three countries left globally which are still endemic.

Local documentaries to be featured at free event - Hickory Daily Record

Posted: 28 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST

HICKORY – The Hickory Community Relations Council in partnership with Catawba Valley Community College will host a special event to highlight scenes from the documentaries "Miracle: How a North Carolina County Named Catawba Battled Polio and Won" and "The Untouchables" on Monday, March 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Drendel Auditorium at the SALT Block. This event is free and open to the public.

"Both of the documentaries, produced by CVCC's Red Hawk Publications, are moments in Hickory's history when the entire community worked together, no matter their race or socio-economic status, and that is the perspective that the Community Relations Council will focus on during this special event," said Mandy Pitts Hildebrand, vice chair of the Hickory Community Relations Council. "We are fortunate to have Richard Eller, CVCC's Historian in Residence, to work with us on putting together an event that will be educational, historical, and inspiring."

"Miracle" is about how the Hickory community, in 1944, overcame an epidemic of polio, and built a hospital in 54 hours that was open to everyone. "The Untouchables" recounts the incredible story of the 1964 Ridgeview Panthers football team that went undefeated and unscored upon during the season, a feat still in the record books that was about more than football - it brought the entire community together.

In addition, Eller's students, who will just be getting back from a trip to Selma, will give a recap of their experience and tie it to their thoughts about scenes shown from the "Miracle" and "The Untouchables" documentaries.

"Education is the key to being a fully integrated society," said Eller. "The priceless stories in the documentaries are from 1944 and 1964, and here we are, 56 years later, still talking about them and learning about ourselves and the community through the lens and viewpoints of tenacious people who were part of miracles."

A polio survivor who was in the Hickory hospital, along with several Ridgeview Panthers from the 1964 undefeated football team, will be in attendance and part of a panel after scenes from the documentaries are shared with the audience.

After the event, a reception will be held to meet and get to know the heroes of that time.

The City of Hickory Community Relations Council was established in 1963. Although many changes have taken place in the Hickory community since then, promoting diversity and tolerance of others is still the group's primary focus. The mission of the Community Relations Council is to promote positive relationships within the community through dialogue, education, programs, and resources.

For more information about this special Community Relations Council event, contact CRC staff liaison Captain Philip Demas at the City of Hickory Police Department, at 828-324-2060.

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