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Man Who Lived in an Iron Lung Since 1953 Dies After Covid Diagnosis
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPaul Alexander, a Dallas man who’s lived in an iron lung since contracting polio at the age of six,...
What is polio and what happened the last time there was an epidemic in the UK?
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoDespite eradication in recent years, the polio virus is a deadly illness which wreaked havoc in the...
It’s Time We Talk About Polio In The US And How To Protect Yourself
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPolio is a life-threatening disease that’s long been eradicated in the US. But a recent New York...
What's the real risk from NY's polio outbreak?
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs New York’s polio outbreak potentially spreads to hundreds of people, authorities are sounding alarms about the resurgent infectious disease that...
How one man lived in an iron lung for 70 years – and wrote a book with his mouth
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFew people write their memoirs by tapping the letters on a keyboard with a pen glued to a stick...
Fears of a polio resurgence in the US have health officials on high alert – a virologist explains...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCritical-care patients in the emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston in August...
Column: Trump and RFK Jr. want to make the world safe again for polio and measles. You should be...
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoTrump and Robert F. Kennedy issued attacks on child vaccinations, including for polio, last week....
Politicization of scientific issues a threat to our world
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPaul Alexander (known as “Polio Paul” on social media) died at age 78 in a Dallas hospital earlier...
Infected blood company’s cost-cutting caused deadly polio epidemic
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoA US laboratory that killed 10 children and gave 40,000 people polio went on to sell infected blood...
Opinion: Kids should not face the nearly unsurmountable barriers thrown in my dad's path.
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"My father was always the pitcher when the neighborhood got together to play baseball," Jill Sell...