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'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...
Jonas Salk, the man who cured polio, "would be shocked" by anti-vaxxers, experts say
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoDr Jonals Salk painting Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images Polio is a highly infectious viral...
Wastewater is trying to tell us something about the future of COVID, polio, monkeypox, and the next...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe method of community disease monitoring that has proved so useful during the COVID-19 pandemic is...
Texas history shows that plagues like COVID don't just go away
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoToday's Think, Texas column is dedicated to remembering the echoes of plague in this state. For no...
How long it took to develop 13 vaccines in history
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA pharmacist prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.Jessica Hill/AP Photo Scientists raced to develop COVID-19 vaccines at record speed. Vaccines often...
Polio Is Making a Comeback. Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers!
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf it seems like infectious diseases are coming at us faster, spreading more widely and persisting longer than they have in generations, it’s because...
We must all march toward global polio eradication and help prevent polio outbreaks
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSince 1988, Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have reduced polio cases by 99.9% worldwide. The wild poliovirus is now circulating only in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
EDITORIAL: Parents must protect children against polio
The Salem News, Mass. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 17—The news was like a nightmare from the past — polio was found in New York City wastewater last week, sparking memories of a crippling epidemic that lasted much of the 1950s and 1960s ...
'Doing nothing is not an option': Monroe doctor featured in The Rotarian magazine
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMONROE — Monroe's only certified addiction provider, Dr. Arun Gupta, is featured in a worldwide...
Letter to the editor: Is a 'brave new world' coming?
The Repository via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWith horror I think of the world that Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, Frank LaRose and their ilk hope to create. Some of that reform is already in force in...
