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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...
to experience polio outbreaks, despite hopes the virus would be eradicated by 2000. This persistence...]
Indeed it does. Polio outbreaks, we believe, are persisting today for the same reason they arose. South Asia is simply...
than polio was in the 1950s," said she is particularly eager to have business leaders attend...
the epidemic equation -- necessary but not sufficient to create The Age of Polio. Outbreaks were not caused... alone.[i]
What is most remarkable about this list is that so few outbreaks of paralytic polio were recorded anywhere in the world...
for lead arsenate in his annual report – was hit hard. “The first major polio outbreak to be recognized... is thus a crucial but overlooked clue to causation.
There were concerns lead arsenate caused polio outbreaks...
of polio was growing. Starting with some spotty outbreaks during May and June the disease had reached near..., but as an even more potent environmental co-factor in polio outbreaks. Understanding the role these toxins played...
, why did poliomyelitis outbreaks continue, albeit in diminished fashion?
(Next: After -- The Persistence of Polio... so with polio.”
They continued: “The disease is so striking in its symptomatology, so devastating...
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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...
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In the old days, it used to be the time for polio outbreaks as well. The article says: "Vaccines... as several of the early polio outbreaks, farm and domestic animals also died. Since experiments showed the virus could not...
campaign he helped launch to find the cause and cure, polio outbreaks were about to get worse. Much worse... already had a significant history with polio – one of the first clusters in the United States occurred in Cherryfield... 
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