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Poliomyeli tis, known as polio, is a viral disease that can cause paralysis.   It once infected millions of people each year, but vaccinatio n efforts around the world have brought the yearly number of new cases to just less than 1000.  That dramatic reduction is in large part thanks to Rotary Internatio nal, a service organizati on, and its efforts to eradicate the disease completely by 2012.  Rotary’s ‘End Polio Now’ campaign has attracted support from famous polio survivors, as it did recently from Itzhak Perlman, one of the greatest violinists in the world. Kane Farabaugh reports.