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The Polio Threat Continues to Grow—But a New Vaccine Could Make a Difference
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child at a school during a door-to-door polio...
New York Reports First Polio Case in a Decade—Here’s What You Need to Know
Prevention via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn unvaccinated NY man has polio, the first documented case in the U.S. since 2013. Here, doctors...
Polio Is Back. Here's How to Keep Yourself Safe
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA dose of polio vaccine is prepared on July 22, 2022, at a pop-up vaccination clinic that was opened in Pomona, N.Y., after a polio case was discovered...
Biggest polio threat in years sparks alarms from New York to California
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn this July 18, 1962, photo, a girl in Atlanta swallows a lump of sugar coated with a dose of polio...
A case of polio has been detected in New York, the first known instance of the disease in the US...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe UK administers a 6-in-1 shot to youngsters that is a combined vaccine against diphtheria,...
Op-Ed: Polio is back — aided by global health failures that spread COVID and monkeypox
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHealth workers administer oral polio vaccine to a child in Kabul, Afghanistan, in March 2021....
'Got polio?' messaging underscores a vaccine campaign's success but creates false sense of security...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor much of the 20th century, Americans were used to seeing people bearing the signs of past polio...
Polio was detected in New York. But most people don't need to worry
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than 92% of people in the U.S. are vaccinated against polio as children. But if you haven't...
As Bill Gates warns the return of polio to New York is a ‘threat to us all,’ London finds it in the...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoPolio was completely gone from the U.S. for 10 years before it was found last month. Now a...
Could Polio Outbreak Put Kids at Risk? State Vaccination & Exemption Rates Vary
The 74 via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAmid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying debate over vaccines, an old virus is...