Polio – The Final Inch
The Final Inch is a collaborative effort between Google.org and Vermilion Films to document the final stages of the historic global effort to eradicate polio. The story told is as much about the messengers as the message. You’ll meet Munzareen Fatima, one of the thousands of community workers across India working to persuade reluctant families to vaccinate their children, and Dr. Ashfaq Bhat, who travels into the backwaters of India’s Ganges Basin by boat and foot to detect emerging cases of polio. Martha Mason and Mikail Davenport describe the paralyzing challenges of childhood polio, reminding us that polio was once endemic in the United States and Europe:
The Final Inch will air in the USA on HBO in 2009.
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