in silicon valley that’s the san jose mercury news, amiright? we subscribed for maany decades, then quit when they fired most (all?) 3-D Realtime reporters. ps: ai reportage sucs, big time
clueless, i looked for an iron lung update, swiped from the net..
> Polio is an infectious disease that can lead to the permanent paralysis of various body parts and can ultimately cause death by immobilizing the patient’s breathing muscles. It primarily affects children.
> No cure exists for the symptoms, but in the 1950s effective vaccines were developed and have been used around the world since then. This allowed some richer countries to eliminate the disease in the 1960s and ’70s. But large outbreaks continued around the world. In the early 1980s, there were hundreds of thousands of cases globally each year1 and the disease was still prevalent in over a hundred countries.
> As a response the “Global Polio Eradication Initiative” (GPEI) was founded in 1988 to fight the virus’s spread and disease burden through a global vaccination campaign.
> Since then, the world has made rapid progress against the disease. Two of the three types of wild poliovirus have been eradicated worldwide, and one remains.
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