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US author falsely claims polio vaccine 'doesn't work'
AFP via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThanks to vaccination, wild poliovirus has been eliminated in the United States and Canada -- but...
Paul Alexander, polio survivor who lived in iron lung for 70 years, dies age 78
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAlexander caught the viral disease when he was 6 years old, in the summer of 1952 when he was living...
Jonas Salk and the History of Testing Vaccines on Institutionalized People
Teen Vogue via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJonas Salk did incredible things for our world, revolutionizing medicine by helping to create the...
Fact Check: Aaron Rodgers Supposedly Said He Wanted To Join 'the Team That's Going To Bring Back...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe "team" in question refers to Kennedy's presidential campaign. Snopes has thoroughly investigated...
‘Polio Paul’ Alexander’s sad final days revealed as he battled COVID inside iron lung — before death...
New York Post· 5 days agoIn 1959, 1,200 Americans relied on an iron lung to stay alive, but the machines gradually became...
Sudan to respond to new emergence of variant poliovirus in Red Sea State
World Health Organization· 4 days agoPhoto credit: WHO/WHO Sudan11 March 2024, Port Sudan, Sudan – Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) will launch a polio vaccination campaign in April 2024 in response to a new emergence ...
Paul Alexander, Who Lived in an Iron Lung for 70 Years, Dies at 78 After Contracting COVID-19
People via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIron lung (c. 1933) used to breathe for polio patients until 1955 when polio vaccine became...
‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, dies at 78 | CNN
CNN.com· 5 days agoPaul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied...
Inside world of Iron Lung man & why his dream of marriage was destroyed
The US Sun· 5 days agoCOCOONED in an iron lung for more than 70 years, Paul Alexander still enjoyed a life well lived....
‘Polio Paul’ Alexander, who spent 72 years inside iron lung, dead at 78
New York Post· 6 days agoIn 1959, 1,200 Americans relied on an iron lung to stay alive, but the machines gradually became...