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VIDEOS: Look Who's Talking About Polio Over A Cup Of Coffee

In an unlikely series of online videos, "polio experts" share their stories from the campaign to eradicate the virus.
tk (Dr Naveed Sadozai on the right) (screencap from video)

October 24 is World Polio Day. And now we're getting closer to a world without polio — there have been fewer than a dozen cases this year.

One way people are learning more about the disease and, an organization that has partnered with the World Health Organization and Rotary International, among others, to end polio. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a funder of Goats and Soda, is also a core partner.

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