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BREAKING NEWS: Eradicated in 1979, community spread of polio returns to the United States
🕑 Added 2022-07-21 22:13:13 +0000 UTC[Albany, N.Y.] – MTN The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the Rockland County Department of Health reported the first case of community transmission polio since 1979 in the United States, hospitalizing a New York state resident.
The person was identified as a young adult with no travel history outside of the United States and was hospitalized with paralytic polio. The individual has been released from the hospital, but officials did not indicate if they are experiencing long-term complications...
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My uncle had polio....no joke 1952 spent months in hospital! He still drags his right leg and foot to this day! We found here in the UK, being part of the EU brought us back diseases we had previously eradicated. Some of the EU countries did not have such a vigorous childhood vaccination programme and we saw the likes of mumps, measles, tuberculosis, and typhoid appear in isolation this past decade. The connected world of international travel lays bare mutations of diseases that don't die on a 4 week ship passing, moreover on a 4 hour flight from Africa! It's astonishing!
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Two - I called quits at two
How many pandemics before we can call it an apocalypse and quit our day jobs? Asking for a friend.
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