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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
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for a variety of reasons.
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One is the resources that are needed in order to do this.
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The other is that some places
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where the disease occurs the governments are not stable,