Polio

It most certainly is possible so what you were told was incorrect. It had to have been a bit later than 1950 or 1951.

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. BUT I suspect that you may be off a bit in the years you mentioned in the question. But it most certainly happened. Yes in the very late 1950s and the.

But 2020 has been a terrible year the head. Unlike poliovirus PPS is not contagious. It looked as if polio would be the second human disease to be eliminated after smallpox.

ISLAMABAD AP Pakistani authorities on Monday launched a nationwide anti-polio campaign even as coronavirus infections surge. PPS affects between 25 and 40 out of every 100 polio survivors. About 150000 health workers are taking part in the five-day anti-polio drive to inoculate 224 million children under age 5 according to a statement issued by Shahzad Beg the coordinator for polio program.

Post-polio syndrome PPS is a condition that can affect polio survivors decades after they recover from their initial poliovirus infection.

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