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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on August 25, 2020, 07:19:25 PM

Title: Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 25, 2020, 07:19:25 PM

Hurrah for vaccination!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53887947

Title: Re: Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'
Post by: Roses on August 26, 2020, 08:41:17 AM

Very good news, that such give anti-vaxers food for thought.

Title: Re: Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'
Post by: Anchorman on August 26, 2020, 08:55:51 AM

This needed a lot more publicity than it got. I remember two girls at my primary school, both victims of that disease, both mobility impaired. That the vast majority of folks nowadays have never heard of polio is a testimony to why vaccination matters.

Title: Re: Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'
Post by: Roses on August 26, 2020, 09:14:52 AM

One of my uncles had polio when he was 12 months old in 1924. He had a crippled right arm. He was beaten at school for having to write with his left hand! >:( He suffered from depression as he grew older. :(

Title: Re: Africa declared free of wild polio in 'milestone'
Post by: Enki on August 27, 2020, 11:00:08 AM

Excellent news. I was(unwttingly) part of the experiment in Hull in 1961 when a serous outbreak of polio hit the city. It became the first city in Western Europe to vaccinate almost all its population with the oral Sabin vaccine(the famous sugar lump).

https://www.silversurfers.com/charities/one-last-push/1961-hull-something-extraordinary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO1TJdXZ6Og