Virus -&- Polio -&- Eye on the UN

Virus: Our new scariest word


Amish children infected with polio virus -- "traced back to an oral vaccine that was administered in another country"

[. . . . ] Health officials said the cases do not pose a threat to the general public because most people have been vaccinated against polio.

[. . . . ] The last naturally occurring case of polio in the United States was in 1979, and health officials consider the disease eliminated in the Western Hemisphere. It persists in other parts of the world, with the vast majority of cases concentrated in India, Nigeria and Pakistan, according to the World Health Organization. [. . . . ]

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