The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Accessed 26 April 2014
A Remarkable Achievement: 80 Percent of the World Now Polio-Free
Posted: 04/21/2014 8:05 am EDT
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Excerpt
I’m recently back from New Delhi where I attended meetings on global health security, tuberculosis, and HIV — and very importantly, participated in the World Health Organization’s event to certify Southeast Asia free of polio.
The 11 countries of Southeast Asia — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste — are home to 1.8 billion people.
This means 80 percent of the world is now polio-free — a remarkable achievement.

Even as we celebrated this important milestone, we acknowledged there’s more to do…