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minus-squarekhannie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 months agoIs polio really back? I haven’t heard anything about it in years except the drive to finally eradicate it.
minus-squareSaltySalamander@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-29 months agohttps://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2023/03/17/why-is-polio-making-a-comeback-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9577438/
minus-squarekhannie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoCheers. Well that’s depressing.
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 months agoUnlike smallpox, no other global campaign to eradicate diseases has ever happened.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-29 months agoThere are a few others, but they have succeeded yet. Anti-vaxxers aren’t helping. It is remarkable in its own way, though. We live in the only time period of human history where we can plausibly say an entire disease has gone away.
minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·9 months agoNot really. There are some vaccine related cases but nothing naturally occurring that I know of.
Is polio really back? I haven’t heard anything about it in years except the drive to finally eradicate it.
https://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2023/03/17/why-is-polio-making-a-comeback-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9577438/
Cheers. Well that’s depressing.
Unlike smallpox, no other global campaign to eradicate diseases has ever happened.
There are a few others, but they have succeeded yet. Anti-vaxxers aren’t helping.
It is remarkable in its own way, though. We live in the only time period of human history where we can plausibly say an entire disease has gone away.
Not really. There are some vaccine related cases but nothing naturally occurring that I know of.