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For example, this effort that's described here from 2001
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where the World Health Organization has a push,
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they say, we know where the cases are occurring,
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we know what communities still have polio within them,
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if we do sort of really gear up
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for a massive immunization effort in those areas
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we could eliminate polio from that community.
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In this way, by knowing what communities it's in
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and acting on all of them at once
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you might be able to eradicate polio in the same way
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that we eradicated smallpox.
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So far those efforts have failed