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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...
‘It’s like having CPR 24/7’: Savoy woman shares polio survival story, urges vaccination
WCIA Champaign via Yahoo News· 1 month agoSAVOY, Ill. (WCIA) — Polio used to be one of the most feared diseases in the United States,...
Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably...
Paul Alexander spent seven decades in an iron lung. Polio couldn’t take his hope
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoHe had dreams of flying kites and playing baseball, the imaginations of a man whose physical...
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...
Burundi officials detect polio outbreak linked to vaccine
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHealth officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time...
Polio struck this Pennsylvania man when he was just 7, he helped Dr. Salk develop vaccine
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAugust is National Immunization Month, an annual observance held to highlight the importance of routine vaccination for all people of all ages. My first experience with the word "immunization ...
Leprosy, malaria, COVID: What is an endemic? What is an epidemic? What you need to know
Florida Today via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAccording to the Centers for Disease Control, there's another thing to worry about when visiting...
Paul Alexander, polio survivor in iron lung for over 70 years, dies at 78 after Covid diagnosis
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPaul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio,...
2022 Year in Review: The 10 most-searched viruses on Yahoo Canada
Yahoo News Canada· 1 year agoQueen Elizabeth II, Hurricane Ian, Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, COVID-19 swab, Ukraine President...