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Ally Close To RFK Jr. Files Petition To Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
If RFK Jr. is confirmed as head of Health and Human Services, he might take the rare step of intervening in the petition review process.
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Israeli Strikes Kill 27 Palestinians In Gaza As Polio Vaccination Resumes
Israeli military strikes killed at least 27 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as health officials resumed vaccination of tens of thousands more children in the enclave against polio.
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Polio-Infected Man, Who Spent 70 Years Inside An Iron Lung, Dies
Paul Alexander faced many challenges since he was born in 1946. He endured the worst polio outbreak in US history with almost 58,000 cases - mostly children.
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Polio-Infected Man Has Survived Living Inside Iron Lung For 70 Years. Read His Story
The iron lung employs a technique called "frog breathing," which uses the throat muscles to force air past the vocal cords.
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"Deathly Scared": 1st US Polio Case In A Decade Stirs Fear
The developments are leading experts to fear that polio, once one of the most feared diseases in America but now endemic to just a couple of developing countries, may wreak devastation stateside again.
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US Detects First Case Of Polio In Nearly A Decade
The United States on Thursday reported its first case of polio in almost a decade.
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India Should Be Wary of Importing Polio From Pakistan, US Disease Control Chief Says
While India has been polio-free since last year, it should be on the guard against importing the wild poliovirus from neighbouring Pakistan, says Dr Thomas Frieden, head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Rare, polio-like disease found in California children
A rare, polio-like syndrome that has no known cure has emerged in a small number of children in California, US researchers said on Sunday.
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Pakistan to talk with militants on anti-polio ban
Pakistani authorities will try to persuade militants in a northwest tribal area to lift a ban on anti-polio vaccination teams imposed in protest at US drone strikes, officials said on Wednesday. Local warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur on Saturday banned the anti-polio campaign in North Waziristan, a Taliban and al-Qaeda-infested region bordering Afghanista...
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Pakistani Taliban bans polio vaccination
A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the area. The group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet yesterday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campa...
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Ally Close To RFK Jr. Files Petition To Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
If RFK Jr. is confirmed as head of Health and Human Services, he might take the rare step of intervening in the petition review process.
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Israeli Strikes Kill 27 Palestinians In Gaza As Polio Vaccination Resumes
Israeli military strikes killed at least 27 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as health officials resumed vaccination of tens of thousands more children in the enclave against polio.
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Polio-Infected Man, Who Spent 70 Years Inside An Iron Lung, Dies
Paul Alexander faced many challenges since he was born in 1946. He endured the worst polio outbreak in US history with almost 58,000 cases - mostly children.
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Polio-Infected Man Has Survived Living Inside Iron Lung For 70 Years. Read His Story
The iron lung employs a technique called "frog breathing," which uses the throat muscles to force air past the vocal cords.
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"Deathly Scared": 1st US Polio Case In A Decade Stirs Fear
The developments are leading experts to fear that polio, once one of the most feared diseases in America but now endemic to just a couple of developing countries, may wreak devastation stateside again.
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US Detects First Case Of Polio In Nearly A Decade
The United States on Thursday reported its first case of polio in almost a decade.
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India Should Be Wary of Importing Polio From Pakistan, US Disease Control Chief Says
While India has been polio-free since last year, it should be on the guard against importing the wild poliovirus from neighbouring Pakistan, says Dr Thomas Frieden, head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Rare, polio-like disease found in California children
A rare, polio-like syndrome that has no known cure has emerged in a small number of children in California, US researchers said on Sunday.
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Pakistan to talk with militants on anti-polio ban
Pakistani authorities will try to persuade militants in a northwest tribal area to lift a ban on anti-polio vaccination teams imposed in protest at US drone strikes, officials said on Wednesday. Local warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur on Saturday banned the anti-polio campaign in North Waziristan, a Taliban and al-Qaeda-infested region bordering Afghanista...
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Pakistani Taliban bans polio vaccination
A powerful Pakistani Taliban faction has said it will not allow an anti-polio campaign to be conducted in its stronghold of North Waziristan tribal region as long as US drone strikes continue in the area. The group led by commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur distributed a pamphlet yesterday that announced the ban on the government's polio vaccination campa...
