UN polio eradication

[greenilex]

Rather early this morning I happened to hear the Nigerian doctor in charge of polio eradication give a couple of answers on the World service news.

Now there's a man on top of his job - and someone I'd trust to carry it out and make himself redundant within the next few years.

Quite cheered me up for the day.

[Lateralthinking1]

This is quite interesting.

Someone working towards a cure is effectively working towards his own redundancy. On that basis, you would expect a decent politician with special expertise to solve a major problem and say "that's it for me".

But I am not sure that I can think of a single time when one has said "I've solved this", "I've cured this".

[Roehre]

Rather early this morning I happened to hear the Nigerian doctor in charge of polio eradication give a couple of answers on the World service news.

Now there's a man on top of his job - and someone I'd trust to carry it out and make himself redundant within the next few years.

Quite cheered me up for the day.

I would like to point out that eradication of Polio is a world wide Rotary project which is supported by, but certainly not run by, UN or UNESCO. Just to put the record straight. Nigeria is a difficult country to immunize, as there is a lot of resistance in the Muslim north, where the doctors are either seen as American/Western imperialists, or as medecin-men sterilizing women with their polio-vaccin dripped onto a little lump of sugar or with their injection needle.