How Polio Can Be A Global Emergency When Cases Are At An All-Time Low

Efforts like the one being led by Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have reduced number of children paralyzed by the polio virus from 350,000 in 1998 to fewer than 225 cases in 2012.

High school and college kids typically get the jobs that are left over, that no one else really wants, such as working at McDonalds. However, competition for any job is no so intense, that teens cannot find any job that no one else wants. As a result of that increased competition, Number of high-school students with jobs hits 20-year low

For those who, like Time magazine and its exhaustive treatise on soaring healthcare costs, are shocked and confused how it is possible that prices for some of the most rudimentary staples, among them basic medical care and college tuition, have exploded we have the answer.

Gunmen suspected of belonging to a radical Islamic sect shot and killed at least nine women who were taking part in a polio vaccination drive in northern Nigeria on Friday, highlighting the religious tensions surrounding the inoculation of children in one of the few nations where the disease still remains endemic.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates Sunday lauded progress in campaigns to reduce polio cases in northern Nigeria's Kano region, describing it as victory in the global fight against the epidemic.Gates was in Kano to assess the impact of polio immunisation in this once polio-endemic state and epicentre of the transmission of the crippling viral disease throughout the world."It is fantastic to be here to see so much progress... in reducing the polio burden," Gates told a gathering of political and traditional leaders in Kano.

Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,

Wall Street Cheat Sheet submits: By Damien HoffmanBy now you’ve heard Research in Motion (RIMM) unveiled their much anticipated tablet, Blackberry Playbook. Here are two key reasons the playbook for Playbook seems to be second-rate at best:

A campaign to immunize over 85 million children under five against polio will kick off Saturday in west and central Africa in a bid to halt a year-long epidemic, health bodies said in a joint communique.According to a statement issued Thursday by the Joint Global Polio Eradication Initiative and International Federation of the Red Cross, nine countries in the region had active outbreaks of polio, a virus eliminated in most of the world.