It was licensed in 1955 and all but eliminated polio in this country by the 1960's.

In 1960, Czechoslovakia became the first country certified to have eliminated polio.

We've eliminated smallpox, and are close to eliminating polio.

Many countries stopped vaccinating or cut back substantially when they eliminated polio in the 1990's.

The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most countries in the world.

And now we are just a year or two away from eliminating polio, as well.

Today, thanks to concerted international action, just a handful still need to eliminate polio.

The real challenge is to eliminate polio at its epicenter, Nigeria.

However, the campaign to eliminate polio would not be considered a clean living movements as it was a single issue crusade.

They expected to repeat the success of large-scale immunization programs that nearly eliminated polio from Africa by 2003.