THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE • CLUB #42 • ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7150 • CHARTERED 1912 • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016
A Look Ahead
OCTOBER 21
RCS Foundation Trustee Meeting
12:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
PP Dennis Baldwin Presiding
Program
Polio
Dr. Dayaprasad G. Kulkarni
OCTOBER 28
12:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
PP Bradley Strait Presiding
Program
The YWCA - Joelle Harleston
***NOTICE***
NEXT FRIDAY | OCTOBER 28
SYRACUSE ROTARY WILL MEET
IN THE UPSTAIRS UNIVERSITY ROOM
NOVEMBER 4
12:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
PP Gary Wilson Presiding
Program
TBA
Dr. Dayaprasad G. Kulkarni, a Syracuse
Rotarian, will present Friday. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by
the poliovirus. In about 0.5% of cases
there is muscle weakness resulting in an
inability to move. Poliovirus is usually
spread from person to person through
infected fecal matter entering the
mouth. It may also be spread by food
or water containing human feces and,
less commonly, from infected saliva.
Those who are
infected may
spread
the
disease for up
to six weeks
even if no
symptoms are
present. The
disease may be
A child with deformaties diagnosed by
finding the viof her legs due to Polio.
rus in the feces or detecting antibodies
against it in the blood. The disease only
occurs naturally in humans.
The disease is preventable with the polio vaccine; however, a number of doses
are required for it to be effective. The
US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention recommends polio vaccination boosters for travelers and those
who live in countries where the disease
is occurring. Once infected there is no
specific treatment.
Poliomyelitis has existed for thousands
of years, with depictions of the disease
in ancient art. The disease was first recognized as a distinct condition by Michael Underwood in 1789 and the virus
that causes it was first identified in 1908
by Karl Landsteiner. Major outbreaks
started to occur in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States.
In the 20th century it became one of
the most worrying childhood diseases
in these areas. The
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Police-Community Dialogue Registration
IFW Newsletter: InterFaith Words, Oct. 17, 2016
NOVEMBER 11
11:00 am
RCS Board of Directors Meeting
12:00 pm
RCS Club Meeting
PP Gary Wilson Presiding
Syracuse Police Chief:
Frank Fowler
PRESIDENT
ROBERT SHERBURNE
1979 – 2016: A billion miles to save billions of lives
Program Committee
11:00 am
Program
This Week: Rotary's Fight Against Polio
The InterFaith Works' El-Hindi Center for Dialogue is now accepting registrations for Seeking a Shared, Safe Community: Syracuse Police-Community Dialogue,
which will begin began on October 20 and will meet through the end of November. There are three circles to choose from, meeting for five two-hour sessions on
selected Tuesdays and Thursdays. Seeking a Shared Safe Community is a dialogue
to help foster relationships, trust and respect between police and the Syracuse and
Central New York communities.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
MARYLIN GALIMI
To register, contact Peter Willner by phone: 315-449-3552, ext. 102,
or email: [email protected].
SECRETARY
MICHAEL GEORGE
TREASURER
DAN MORROW
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS
HAROLD SCHUMM
Diseases Eliminated in the United States
Many more are close to elimination with 98-99% reductions
This is a list of diseases known (or declared) to have been eliminated from
the United States, either permanently or
at one time. Most of the diseases listed
were eliminated after coordinated public
health campaigns. (Since some diseases
can be eliminated and then reintroduced
at a later time, such diseases are still eligible for the list, but with the fact of
reintroduction noted.) Some entries are
based on formal public health declarations, others are based on reliable information in the medical or public health
literature. Since some diseases can be
eliminated, but subsequently reimported
without transmitting additional endemic cases, these are noted in a dedicated
column. Although no fixed rule always
applies, many infectious diseases (e.g.,
measles) are considered eliminated when
no cases have been reported to public
health authorities for at least 12 months.
Yellow Fever. . . . . . . . . . . . . eliminated in 1905
Last imported case 1996 (prior to that 1924)
Smallpox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eliminated in 1934
After widespread national vaccination efforts;
declared eradicated worldwide in 1980.
Malaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eliminated in 1951
National Malaria Eradication Program
Poliomyelitis. . . . . . . . . . . . eliminated in 1979
After widespread national vaccination efforts; see
Poliomyelitis eradication.
Measles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . eliminated in 2000
After widespread national vaccination efforts
Diphtheria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . eliminated in 2012
After widespread national vaccination efforts.
A TEM micrograph of poliovirus
RAMON "RAY"
LEACH
Birthday: October 17
Joined: May 1974
Babesia bovis babesiosis. . . eliminated in 1943
Cattle disease; occasionally infects humans.. .
Various public health projects are ongoing with a goal of eliminating diseases
from the country. Note that several infectious diseases in the United States,
not on the above list, are considered close
to elimination (98-99% reductions): e.g.,
Hemophilus influenzae, mumps, rubella,
congenital rubella, tetanus. Other disease
pathogens (e.g., those of anthrax and rabies) have been almost entirely eliminated from humans in the US, but remain
as hazards in the environment and so
cannot accurately be described as eliminated. The stated goal of "eradication"
of hookworm from the southeast US
(1915-20) was not achieved, although
the hookworm-infection rate of that region did drop by more than half. z
ROTARIAN BIRTHDAY
wikipedia.org
ROTARIAN BIRTHDAY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016
ANTHONY
FINOCHIO
Birthday: October 20
Joined: July 2016
Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with
only the left hand.
That you burn more calories eating celery than it
contains (the more you eat the thinner you become).
The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in
your body not attached to any other.
Your most sensitive finger is your index finger.
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Syracuse Rotary's Kevin Visconti with
Jenny Dickinson from Golisano's
Childrens Hospital, who presented to
the Club last week.
SYRACUSE ROTARY PRESS
World Polio Day: October 24
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first polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s by Jonas
Salk (1914-1995), an American medical researcher and
virologist. It is hoped that vaccination efforts and early
detection of cases will result in global eradication of the
disease by 2018.
October 24 is World Polio Day. It was established by
Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas
Salk.
The Rotary Foundation awarded the first 3 H Grant
(Health, Hunger and Humanity) in 1979 to immunize
6 million children in the Philippines against Polio. This
is where the journey began. Success in the Philippines
inspired the Foundation to think bigger. Much Bigger. In 1980, Rotary vowed to eradicate the polio virus
through global immunization. The Polio Plus program
was launched in 1985, and Rotary began working with
organizations like WHO, UNICEF, CDC and the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation to support the eradication
efforts.
More than $1.6 Billion has been raised so far by Rotarians. 2.5 Billion children have been immunized and more
than 120 countries have been declared Polio free since
1988. In 2014 the disease was only spreading between
people in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan
In 2015 polio affected less than 100 people, down from
350,000 cases in 1988.
With each passing day, The Rotary Foundation and it’s
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FRIDAY | OCTOBER 21
THE ROTARY CLUB OF SYRACUSE
F O U N DAT I O N T R U S T E E
OCTOBER MEETING | 11AM | DRUMLINS
Presiding Past Presidents 2016-17
Acting-Presidents' Schedule: Next Six Meetings
Jim Gladziszewski | Robert Sherburne
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PP Bradley "Brad" Strait (1994-95). . . . . . . . . . . . October 21
PP H. Thomas "Tom" Platt (1984-85). . . . . . . . . . October 28
PP Gary Wilson (2012-13). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 4
PP Gary Wilson (2012-13). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 11
PP Vernon Lee (2011-2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 18
PP Vernon Lee (2011-2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 2
See Jim Gladziszewski to schedule your time at the lecturn.
Jonas Salk Introduced Polio Vaccine
Salk: Public health a "moral commitment"
wikipedia.org
Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and
virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York
City, he attended New York University
School of Medicine, later choosing to do
medical research instead of becoming a
practicing physician. In 1939, after earning
his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a scientist physician at Mount Sinai
Hospital.Two years later he was granted a
fellowship at the University of Michigan,
where he would study flu viruses with his
Jonas Salk in 1959 mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.
Until 1955, when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered one of the most frightening
public health problems in the world. In the postwar United
States, annual epidemics were increasingly devastating. The
1952 U.S. epidemic was the worst outbreak in the nation's
history. Of nearly 58,000 cases reported that year, 3,145 people died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis,with most of its victims being children.
In 1938, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the world's
most recognized victim of the disease, had founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (known as March of
Dimes Foundation since 2007), an organization that would
fund the development of a vaccine.
In 1947, Salk accepted an appointment to the University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In 1948, he undertook a project funded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
to determine the number of different types of polio virus. Salk
saw an opportunity to extend this project towards developing
a vaccine against polio, and, together with the skilled research
team he assembled, devoted himself to this work for the next
seven years. The field trial set up to test the Salk vaccine wasthe most elaborate program of its kind in history, involving
20,000 physicians and public health officers, 64,000 school
personnel, and 220,000 volunteers. Over 1,800,000 school
children took part in the trial. When news of the vaccine's
success was made public on April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed
as a "miracle worker" and the day almost became a national
holiday. Around the world, an immediate rush to vaccinate
began, with countries including Canada, Sweden, Denmark,
Norway, West Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and
Belgium planning to begin polio immunization campaigns
using Salk's vaccine. Salk campaigned for mandatory vaccination, claiming that public health should be considered a
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