Howrah District, India (CNN) -- Rukhsar Khatoon is
too young to fully grasp the significance of her life: that she is a
last in a country of 1.2 billion people.
She has become the
greatest symbol of India's valiant -- and successful -- effort to rid
itself of a crippling and potentially deadly disease. Rukhsar, 4, is the
final documented case of polio in India.
Her face has appeared in
newspapers and on television. She's been invited to national events by
Rotary International, the organization that led the effort to rid India
of polio. She is a literal poster child, an inspiration, a symbol of a
feat that no doctor or health official thought possible even a few years
ago.
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