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By Maggie Peterson
Edmonds Rotary 

You can help eradicate polio | Guest View

World Polio Day is Oct. 24

 

Last updated 10/22/2022 at 6:22am



Most of us are too young to remember what a world being ravished by polio was like. But in the 1940s and 1950s, polio either paralyzed or killed over half a million people. There is no cure, only eradication.

Why talk about this now? Polio is era...



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Reader Comments(1)

K SU writes:

It seems important to mention that the “outbreaks” in the US are type 2....vaccine derived virus. What is the answer? More vaccination? And of course blame the unvaccinated. Many fail to look at the real problem here.

 
 
 

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