A programme is underway in Gaza, in incredibly trying conditions, to vaccinate 100,000 children against polio after it was detected there for the first time in 25 years.
Polio has been largely eradicated around the world - the only other places to still see cases are Pakistan and Afghanistan.
But that doesn't mean we can be complacent in New Zealand - a place where thousands of people are still living with the after-effects of the disease.
One of them is Gordon Jackman - who speaks to Emile Donovan.
Titahi Bay boy receiving the polio vaccine, 1958 Photo: Evening Post newspaper, courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library
