Barcelona star Lionel Messi is
shoot a video to raise awareness of the need to eradicate polio.
The video comes on the occasion of
the International Day for the Eradication of the disease in the 28 of this
month, because it agrees birthday American doctor Jonas Salk, who developed the
first vaccine against this disease.
And Messi appears in the video
wearing a shirt Catalans, he says: "We need you to eliminate completely
polio," before to turn around to show the number 99 written on his shirt
in reference to the percentage which fell by incidence of the disease as a
result of awareness campaigns global fight it.
Polio is an infectious disease
that affects the nervous system and can cause paralysis and full cure, and the
disease spreads in areas with poor health conditions and mainly affects
children and young adults.
Currently there is no cure for
this disease, but there is a vaccine to avoid getting taken several times
during childhood.
In 1988, the disease has killed
about 350 thousand people around the world and the number of victims in 2010 to
one thousand and 500 people; however polio is still endemic in Pakistan,
Afghanistan and Nigeria.
And Messi participates in this
campaign since 2010, when cooperation Barcelona with the Foundation (Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation) charity, to bear fruit of cooperation between them
for the campaign of "MORE THAN A GOAL. End Polio" or” more than just
a goal... together to eradicate polio “.
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