Our show started with our monthly report from Leanne Harter, Story County Outreach and Special Projects Manager. We then heard from Kim Harms, an author from Huxley who told us why she wrote her personal story "Navigating the World of Mastectomies and Breast Reconstruction" and read some moving passages. Since epidemics have been on our minds recently we were fortunate to have guests who could tell us what it means to have a disease eradicated. For smallpox we heard from Prof Alan Marcus, chair of the History Department at Mississippi State University and author of works focusing on the History of Technology, Science, Medicine. A decades long effort by Rotary International has focused on worldwide efforts to eradicate polio. One of the people actually part of this is Susan Herrick from Boone, who told what is involved in eliminating polio from the earth.
