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The Age of Polio: How an Old Virus and New Toxins Triggered a Man-made Epidemic -- Part 6, After: The Persistence of Polio by Kim S. Patient Expert To summarize our theory: Polio is a virus, contagious like other viruses, and generally a harmless enterovirus... to experience polio outbreaks, despite hopes the virus would be eradicated by 2000. This persistence...
Whiter the Illusory Cowdry B Inclusion of Polio? by Dr. Brian M. Medical DoctorHealth Maven in textbooks and on the web for a photomicrograph of a polio-related Cowdry B inclusion. Failing in my search... on morphological grounds -- with no implication as to the cause (polio or otherwise) -- as being small...
Polio vaccine, 50 years later by Meredy Registered NurseHealth Maven Fifty years ago Tuesday, on April 12, 1955, scientists announced that the polio vaccine developed... years of Francis' announcement, the incidence of polio dropped as much as to 90%. The last naturally...
Amazing Stories of Polio! by Christina Thielst Patient ExpertHealth Maven and am really impressed by a cartoon titled  Amazing Stories of Polio   in the  February 2009 issue of The Rotarian... who work tirelessly to eradicate polio and improve communities! ...
Bill and Melinda Gates At Davos- Polio Vaccines and Microsoft Kinect Entertains by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven This was an interview done from the World Economic Forum to where they are talking about their donations and grants and also how different governments are matching an contributing.  The UK is one of the countries working w
Polio Outbreak and more by Jason S. Patient Expert Big news today is that China has experienced a polio outbreak .  The disease apparently made its way to China via Pakistan. This is the first polio outbreak in China since 1999.  A disease...
Thousands of Children Fail to Get Polio Vaccination in Troubled Regions of Pakistan by Dr. J. Mariano Anto Bruno M. Medical Doctor Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)were not vaccinated against polio during a recent campaign, thanks... to administer polio drops to around 39,498 children during the three-day campaign launched on Aug 19. However...
The Age of Polio: How an Old Virus and New Toxins Created a Man-made Epidemic -- Part 4, Post-War Epidemics and the Triumph of V by Kim S. Patient Expert , polio. There were two articles on polio in this August issue. One was titled “Summer season brings... of polio was growing. Starting with some spotty outbreaks during May and June the disease had reached near...
The Age of Polio: How an Old Virus and New Toxins Created a Man-made Epidemic -- Part 7, “Where was God?” Lessons le by Kim S. Patient Expert and Mark Blaxill What, then, is the natural history of polio telling us? Beyond the lessons for containing polio outbreaks themselves, we suggest that a single-minded focus on germs – and an unwillingness...
Polio boosters for Adults by Dr. Erik McLaughlin Medical Doctor Polio is a viral infection that is most commonly associated with paralysis of children and contributes to morbidity of adulthood.  Fortunately, an effective vaccine exists to prevent Polio...

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Hey Dave,The OPV/HIV theory was never truly disproven (oral polio virus vaccine cause of HIV... via polio vaccine (using monkey kidney cells) or through some sort of natural exposure, we accept the strong... polio vaccine connection. Details can be found at:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/science/23HIV...crap

Nigerian State to Resume Polio Vaccination After 8-Month Boycott Due to Rumors of HIV Contamination
of polio vaccinations after tests showed that the vaccines were not contaminated with HIV, Reuters reports (Reuters, 7/19). The state had stopped its polio immunizations amid rumors that the vaccines were part... of a polio outbreak since it refused to allow the inoculations in October 2003. The Nigerian government...crap

Nigeria to Test Polio Vaccines Over AIDS
Nigerian authorities said yesterday that polio vaccines recently administered in a nationwide... of contracting polio -- an effort hampered in Nigeria by the assertion of Islamic radicals that the drive is part... polio cases worldwide are in Nigeria, Pakistan and India. Health authorities in India say they are close...crap

Investigation Into Claims That Polio Vaccine Contaminated With HIV Inconclusive, Nigerian Panel Says
A Nigerian panel on Tuesday said that its investigation into claims that a polio vaccine... risk of contracting polio. However, the vaccinations were hampered when some Muslim leaders in northern... and religious representatives to South Africa, Indonesia and India to observe testing of the polio vaccine...crap

World Could Eliminate Polio by 2005 But Losing Battle Against HIV/AIDS, HHS Secretary Says
HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson on Thursday at a news conference in New Dehli, India, said that the world could eliminate polio by 2005, but the global community is losing the battle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Thompson said that in the fight against polio, "We...crap

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my child infected.can i give polio vaccine to him.i already given smallpox etc.whether polio oral....thank you Keith Henry, M.D. polio vaccine Use of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV-e)given by injection is recommended-use of oral live polio vaccine is not recommended for HIV infected persons. KH...crap

can coreg cause muscular pain, spasms affecting walking
i am 67 yrs old and have hx of polio w post polio syndrome. also have had five coronary events withinsertion of two stents. hx of chf progressively getting worse this past year. taken off lopressor and started on coreg in june 2008. since being on coreg have noticed increased difficulty walking with pain...crap

Could Breast Cancer Be Prevented with A Vaccine?
If you are over 60, you may remember standing in line to get the polio vaccine when it was introduced in 1955.  If  you are younger, polio is probably just a quaint disease you learned about in school.  Polio and smallpox have been eradicated by global vaccination programs.  In developed countries, measles...crap