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SYMHC Classics: Polio, The Dread Disease

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Is There a Cure for Polio?

By the early 60s, Saban's vaccine had caught on in the United States too. Today, polio is endemic only in Nigeria, India, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of the three types of viruses, polio virus 2 is probably eradicated. The last case to the last known case was in India in 1999.

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