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Ban Calls for Renewed Effort to Wipe Out Polio

Creating a polio-free world - that is what international leaders gathered in New York said they hope to do. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expressed his delight at the new promises by member states to step up their fight against the disease.

“One day when polio is eradicated2 I want everyone in this room to remember that we were here today and that we made the right commitment, we took the right action at the right time to leave a polio free world for future generation," he said.

Leaders of countries where polio is endemic - including Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Nigeria's President GoodLuck Jonathan, and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari - said they will make polio eradication3 a priority:

“Afghanistan will strive hard and hard and hard and surely achieve the goal sooner rather than later," said Karzai.

“I believe that this is a war we will win," said Jonathan.

“Make a solemn pledge to make Pakistan and rest of the world polio-free," said Zardari.

Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the leading donors4 to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Gates said he is optimistic that with the available vaccines5, financial resources, and new country commitments, polio could soon be history.

“I think we have the evidence now that by all of us stepping up and doing our best work we can end the disease, [but] we need to act quickly and we need to have a comprehensive plan," said Gates.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is developing long-term strategies for polio endemic countries and also for high-risk polio-free countries. The initiative aims to certify6 polio's eradication worldwide by the year 2018.

“By 2018 to be able to certify that the world is free of polio, the last case would have occurred some considerable time before that," said Dr. Chris Elias, president of Global Development at the Gates Foundation. "But in order to have the certainty that it is gone, we need to make sure to keep up our efforts while we are strengthening surveillance and making sure that in fact there are no more cases.".

Experts estimate that wiping out polio will save the world $40 to $50 billion over the next 20 years. And they say the resources assembled to eradicate1 polio can also be deployed7 for surveillance and immunization against other preventable disease.


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1 eradicate Ui1zn     
v.根除,消灭,杜绝
参考例句:
  • These insects are very difficult to eradicate.这些昆虫很难根除。
  • They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.他们已经在努力消灭疟疾、破伤风等疾病。
2 eradicated 527fe74fc13c68501cfd202231063f4a     
画着根的
参考例句:
  • Polio has been virtually eradicated in Brazil. 在巴西脊髓灰质炎实际上已经根除。
  • The disease has been eradicated from the world. 这种疾病已在全世界得到根除。
3 eradication otUzfH     
n.根除
参考例句:
  • The eradication of an established infestation is not easy. 根除昆虫蔓延是不容易的。
  • This is often required for intelligent control and eradication. 这经常需要灵巧的控制与消除。
4 donors 89b49c2bd44d6d6906d17dca7315044b     
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
参考例句:
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 vaccines c9bb57973a82c1e95c7cd0f4988a1ded     
疫苗,痘苗( vaccine的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • His team are at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines. 他的小组处于疫苗科研的最前沿。
  • The vaccines were kept cool in refrigerators. 疫苗放在冰箱中冷藏。
6 certify tOozp     
vt.证明,证实;发证书(或执照)给
参考例句:
  • I can certify to his good character.我可以证明他品德好。
  • This swimming certificate is to certify that I can swim one hundred meters.这张游泳证是用以证明我可以游100米远。
7 deployed 4ceaf19fb3d0a70e329fcd3777bb05ea     
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
参考例句:
  • Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
  • The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

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