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    9 months ago

    Is polio really back? I haven’t heard anything about it in years except the drive to finally eradicate it.

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      9 months ago

      Unlike smallpox, no other global campaign to eradicate diseases has ever happened.

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        9 months ago

        There are a few others, but they have succeeded yet. Anti-vaxxers aren’t helping.

        It is remarkable in its own way, though. We live in the only time period of human history where we can plausibly say an entire disease has gone away, and not just for rich people.

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      9 months ago

      Not really. There are some vaccine related cases but nothing naturally occurring that I know of.