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How safe is America from polio?
[ad_1] When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn’t…
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Atlanta, Georgia Local News
Florida plans to end vaccine mandates statewide, including for schoolchildren
[ad_1] (CNN) — Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday. The move would…
Education
Florida Moves To Bring Back Childhood Polio
[ad_1] Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday that the state would soon be moving to end all vaccine mandates, including those that…
Sacramento, California Local News
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill more than a dozen; Health workers press on with polio vaccines
[ad_1] Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday morning, hospital and local authorities said, as…
Gadgets
Why Polio Has Reemerged in Gaza
[ad_1] Why are most cases of polio vaccine-derived variants? Most cases of paralytic polio are now vaccine-derived due to the success of the Global…
Detroit, Michigan Local News
At least 187,000 Gaza children vaccinated for polio so far, U.N. says
[ad_1] United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children’s polio vaccinations as rare moments…
Sacramento, California Local News
Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged Gaza
[ad_1] Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to…
Sacramento, California Local News
The United Nations’ ambitious plan to vaccinate Gaza against polio
[ad_1] The United Nations health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an…
Orlando, Florida Local News
Aid groups in Gaza aim to avert a polio outbreak with vaccinations
[ad_1] The threat of polio is rising fast in the Gaza Strip, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war…
Dallas, Texas Local News
Dallas Native Paul Alexander, Lawyer and Teacher Who Used Iron Lung Since 1952, Dies at 78
[ad_1] Dallas native Paul Alexander, one of two remaining users of the iron lung in the United States, died Tuesday at age 78, according…
Cannabis
Bernie Sanders Demands Probe of Proposal To Patent Taxpayer-Funded Cancer Drug | High Times
[ad_1] Sen. Bernie Sanders is once again keeping drug makers in check, suggesting that people living with cancer are being preyed on by greedy…
Health
Polio Is Exploiting a Very Human Weakness
[ad_1] In 1988, the World Health Assembly announced a very ambitious goal: Polio was to be vanquished by the year 2000. It was a…