India, Oct. 25 -- October 24 is marked as World Polio Day. It was in 1988 that the World Health Assembly began taking steps to eradicate this disease. There has been massive success achieved on that front up till now.

World Polio Day is meant to create awareness about this disease and how to prevent it through regular vaccination in children.

According to UNICEF's website, cases of polio - an untreatable but preventable disease - have fallen by 99.9 percent since 1988. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has saved, according to an estimate, 1.5 million children from the ailment, leading to savings of $27 billion in treatment costs.

The job is not finished. As UNICEF reports, the disease is still endemic in Afghanistan and Pa...