The Development of Polio Vaccines
Overview
Poliomyelitis, also known as infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infection that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Where the disease is co...
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Dorothy Millicent Horstmann played a significant yet often unacknowledged role in the development of the polio vaccine . In the late 1940s and early 1950s, before polio immunizations were considered f...
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The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the reg...
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During an official check to certify that Namibia remained polio-free a decade after it declared it had conquered the disease, officials made a surprising find: A 39-year-old man stricken with ...
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Kabul (dpa) - Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan say they will
fully cooperate with a polio vaccination campaign launched by the
government on Wednesday in fou...
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Myanmar will launch a polio immunization campaign after a toddler was found with the disease, the country's second case since it was declared free of the paralyzing illness seven years ago, a newsp...
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Volunteer health workers have launched a massive polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan's violent southern region after assurances of safe passage, UNICEF said Saturday.Vaccinators are working i...
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For Ramatu Garba, the polio vaccine is more curse than savior _ part of an evil conspiracy hatched in the West to sterilize Nigerian girls.
"Allah used Muslim scientists to expose the West...
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For Ramatu Garba, the polio vaccine is part of an evil conspiracy hatched in the West to sterilize Nigerian girls.
"Allah used Muslim scientists to expose the Western plot of using polio v...
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For doctors struggling to eradicate polio, fighting the paralytic disease can mean vaccinating children in war-torn regions, persuading governments to pay attention, and begging donors for money.A ...
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Bangladesh will vaccinate about 22 million children age 5 and under on Sunday in a continuing effort to eliminate polio, the United Nations' children's agency said in a statement.After a nearly six...
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Farzaan Siddaqui beat up the last health workers who visited his home to vaccinate his children for polio. Like many Muslims in India, he thought the program was an infidel plot to make h...
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