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The film takes a trip to school with a remarkable 6-year-old boy without arms or legs, visits the workplace of a blind computer expert, and meets a professor with polio who teaches the history of discrimination against people with disabilities.
The actor and activist, who has worked on polio vaccination campaigns and looked to raise awareness for the disease, also attached a photo of children in iron lung respirators at California’s ...
The first scene in Every Last Child is of a fully armed army unit being told by its captain to get ready for war, but in this case the war is to give protection against the Taliban who are obstructing the polio vaccinators from immunizing children. Polio victims are then profiled: In one scene, a destitute person affected by polio and pushing a ...
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The Final Inch shows that there was an opportunity to eradicate polio from India (the last case of wild polio in India was reported on 13 January 2011 [11] and the WHO announced the eradication of poliomyelitis in the region on 27 March 2014 [12]) and honors the work of health services and service volunteers.
Most cases of polio are in children under 5 years old, but experts say being vaccinated protects against the potentially fatal disease. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
2 Cast. 3 Production. 4 Reception. 5 References. 6 External links. ... Let the Balloon Go is a 1976 Australian children's film about a young boy with polio in 1917. Plot
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