'TWO DROP' Polio Awareness Message Supported By Joe Bornstein
Mainers strolling along Congress Street during this week might be surprised to see a different sequence flashing atop the Time and Temperature Building. The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein, current tenants of the skyscraper’s advertising space, are proud to use the illuminated sign to promote an important worldwide cause- polio awareness.
The Time and Temperature Building, which typically flashes ‘CALL’ followed by ‘JOE’, will read ‘TWO’ followed by ‘DROP’ through the end of this week. ‘TWO DROP’ reflects the two drops of oral vaccine that are administered to children in an effort to protect them from the highly infectious disease known as polio.
According to Rotary International, an organization that works tirelessly to reduce the spread of polio throughout the world, in 1985 there were 350,000 cases of polio in 125 countries. Today, there are only four endemic countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. Those four countries represent the lowest historical rates of polio.
To learn more about the nature and symptoms of polio, please visit the World Health Organization’s website, http://www.who.int/en/
Organizations such as Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and countless other individuals have dedicated their time, energy and resources to eliminating this devastating and potentially fatal infectious disease in children worldwide. Still, there remains work to be done in order to say goodbye to polio once and for all.
The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein is proud to donate time and space on Portland’s Time and Temperature Building to bring further awareness to this significant nationwide health concern and to honor the tremendous efforts of those working to eradicate polio.
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