Volunteers in developing countries also play a key role: more than ten million participated in mass immunization campaigns in 2002 alone.
The humanitarian benefit is tremendous since between 2002-40, over 10 million new cases of polio worldwide would manifest themselves. Additionally, the savings of polio eradication are potentially as high as US $ 1.5 billion per year – funds that could be used to address other public health priorities. Much of this data has been extracted from WHO.

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