Yahoo answers: What is polio like today? How commen is it? Where is it most commen? Least commen? What are the statistics?
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Hey I'm doing a report on Jonas Salk and the polio disease. I've already discussed polio in the 1900's, a brief biography of jonas salk, and how he created the polio disease. Now my essay is approaching the finnish line. I just have to say how...
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Latest news about polio disease
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Africa close to wiping out wild polio after six months free of disease
Polio, a highly contagious viral disease that causes lifelong paralysis or even death, has been the target of massive education and child vaccination campaigns in several countries. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annual letter for 2015 predicts
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/feb/13/africa-wild-polio-somalia-nigeria-six-months-free-of-disease -
For lack of a vaccine, a lifetime of polio
Bobbi Stevens, 60, of Royal Oak was exposed as a baby to polio, a historically devastating disease that was eliminated in the United States by 1979 thanks to widespread vaccination. While the vaccine was introduced in April 1955, children under a year
Source: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/columnists/marney-rich-keenan/2015/02/12/vaccines-polio-victim/23319915/ -
Nigeria Is On The Verge Of Bidding Goodbye To Polio
"This I believe is the first time in history that they've gone this long without having a case," says Gregory Armstrong, chief of the polio eradication branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If polio really has been stopped in
Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/02/12/385759694/nigeria-is-on-the-verge-of-bidding-goodbye-to-polio -
A Polio Survivor's Plea: Vaccinate Your Children
Most people who oppose vaccines don't know first-hand what these diseases can do to you. They should meet me. Unlike most people in the U.S., I know what it's like to have polio, which used to infect an average of 35,000 people annually in this country
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Why the Next Outbreak Could Be Polio
With news of the latest measles outbreak, this time originating in Disneyland, I found myself somewhat relieved that at the very least, we weren't seeing a resurgence of polio. Finally, after dozens of outbreaks of diseases once relegated to the Oregon
Source: http://observer.com/2015/02/why-the-next-outbreak-could-be-polio/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
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http://www.cdc.gov/polio/about/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/polioandpostpoliosyndrome.html
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155580.php