Nonetheless in the US, as of October 1998,4 persons with vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) have been reported in 1997-1998. All 4 cases occurred in children or contacts ofchildren who were immunized with only OPV. Before 1954, worldwide polio annually crippled more than half a million people of all ages (inthe US alone about 21,000 paralytic cases each year), and often leading to death. Financing India for eradication may be a stumbling block at the moment.