Polio in Pakistan: Everything You Need to Know – Global Citizen
Pakistan remains one of only two countries in the world, alongside neighboring Afghanistan, where polio is endemic. While polio cases have declined globally by 99% since 1998, complex…
Striving to outrace polio: What’s it like living with the disease
Minda Dentler handcycling at mile 32 of The Kona Ironman in Hawaii, 2013. She’s the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Championship. When she was…
Nigeria battles vaccine-derived poliovirus years after polio-free certification
Despite having achieved the wild polio-free certification, Nigeria is still battling the circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus Type 2, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. The last case of wild poliovirus in……
Résurgence de la poliomyélite : le vaccin seule arme de défense absolue
Un agent de santé administre un vaccin antipoliomyélitique oral à un enfant, à Mbezi Makabe, en Tanzanie, le 21mai 2022. ERICKY BONIPHACE / AFP Cest une maladie qui…
Virologist: Here’s What You Should Know About Polio In the US
Image via Associated Press photo This article by Rosemary Rochford is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This content is shared here because the topic may interest…
The Polio Threat Continues to Grow—But a New Vaccine Could Make a Difference
The recent return of polio has hit like something of an epidemiological thunderclap. It was in 1979 that polio was officially declared eradicated in the U.S.—an early step…
We Can’t Lose The Fight Against Polio. Here’s How To Beat It Again — For Good
TOPSHOT – An Afghan health worker administers the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination … [read more] campaign in Kabul on February 28, 2017. – Polio,…
Polio may make a comeback – and it started with linking autism to vaccination
One of my earliest memories, perhaps the earliest of all, goes back to when I was about four years old, in 1946, living in the Bronx borough of…
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