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SYMHC Classics: Polio, The Dread Disease

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Future of Health Is on Your Watch

The poliovirus wasn't discovered until 1908, but it's believed to have existed long before that. People are still getting polio, or so we believe, but not anywhere like the kind of polio they were getting in the 20th century. Sulyn Wong tells you where China's leader came from and how he is using those lessons to control over a billion people.

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