For people who live in North America, where children regularly receive the polio vaccine, it’s hard to imagine the infectious disease having a widespread impact. But that’s just the case in Pakistan, where polio (also known as poliomyelitis) is ravaging the population. This year alone there have been more than one hundred polio cases in […]
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Medical experts have made a disturbing discovery in Brazil, host of the 2014 World Cup. According to reports, the polio virus was recently found in sewage water sampled at an international airport in the country’s southeast. Health officials made the discovery when carrying out a routine investigation at Viracopos International Airport this past March. The […]
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Most of us consider polio a relic of the mid-twentieth century, when the crippling virus struck down U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt along with millions of other people worldwide. But it now appears the polio virus is making a comeback, with the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the issue a “public health emergency […]
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The polio vaccine program is showing signs of success in Pakistan. The country has been facing international pressure to allow workers to attempt to eradicate Type 3 polio. With only a handful of Type 3 cases active around the world, it could be possible to destroy this strain of the illness. Previously, Type 2 polio was eradicated […]
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