Polio? Really?

When I think of polio, of think of my paternal grandfather, whose face had partial paralysis.  It always made it easy to tell him apart from his twin brother.  I don't think of it as a problem of "my generation."  Imagine my surprise to hear that, lead by the Gates Foundation with $255 million dollars, an additional $635 million will be spent over the next five years towards its erradication.  This is discussed in more length in the Washington Post and Newsweek. Even in the U.S., we continue to struggle with "old diseases."  The Star Tribune writes this morning of a disease, HiB, re-emerging 15-20 years after vaccinations for children began here.  Of course, as long as there are those who don't vaccinate, we'll continue to struggle to eradicate diseases.