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Some ten thousand diseases afflict humankind, and we have the power to vanquish only a handful of them. It’s especially...
polio
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The virus in widely used live oral vaccine for polio can on rare occasions mutates into a dangerous form capable...
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She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she was two years old, more than a decade before...
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Polio has been detected in New York City, the state Health Department said Friday, a jarring discovery based on wastewater...
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A polio case identified in New York last month is "the tip of the iceberg" and an indication there "must...
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The case was found In Rockland County, which has a stunningly low polio vaccination rate. Dr. José Romero, director of...
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ALBANY — Polio has been found in more wastewater samples upstate, raising fears that the virus is spreading after an...
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ALBANY — Polio was discovered in wastewater samples from a Rockland County sewage treatment plant dating back to early June,...
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Striking children younger than 5 the hardest, the worst form of the virus causes nerve injury that can lead to...
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A case of polio has been identified in an unvaccinated adult man in Rockland County, officials said.The New York State...