Web sites:

Aventis Pasteur's "Polio Eradication"
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
End of Polio
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
Global Polio Eradication Initiative -- includes the latest eradication news and case count information
Poliomyelitis Fact Sheet -- provided by the World Health Organization
Polio Connection of America -- Links for polio survivors
Polio Information Center Online
Post-Polio Health International -- Actively promotes education, research, advocacy, and networking among the post-polio community
Sabin Vaccine Insitute
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The United Nations Foundation polio information
The University of Michigan Medical School -- Photo exhibit
UNICEF's "A World Without Polio"
Voice of America Polio Eradication Project

Books:

"Dirt and Disease, Polio before FDR" by Naomi Rogers, Rutgers University Press

"The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease" by Sebastião Salgado, Bulfinch Press

"Getting There: Growing up with Polio in the 30's" by Robert C. Huse, Bloomington Ind,: 1st Books Library

"A History of Poliomyelitis" by J.R. Paul, New Haven: Yale University Press

"In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History" by Kathryn Black, Arizona: Addison-Wesley Publishers

"A Paralyzing Fear : The Story of Polio in America" by Nina Gilden Seavey, Jane S. Smith, Paul Wagner, TV Books

"Polio Epidemic: Crippling Virus Outbreak (American Disasters)" by Victoria Sherrow, Enslow Publishers, Inc.

"The Story of Jonas Salk and the Discovery of the Polio Vaccine" by Jim Hargrove; Children's Book Press

Videos:

"A Paralyzing Fear : The Story of Polio in America" (TV)

Sister Kenny (1946)

For educators:

Download your classroom guide here. (PDF Format)

Polio Partners:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CORE Group
Pan American Health Organization
Rotary International
UNICEF
The UN Foundation
USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
The World Health Organization