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Flipboard News DeskAfter decades of successful vaccination campaigns, polio is almost eradicated from the planet. But two countries are seeing an increase in cases. Read more from <a href="https://flipboard.com/@npr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@npr</a> <a href="https://flip.it/wUfTXF" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/wUfTXF</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vaccine</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polio</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pakistan</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Afghanistan</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Health</a>

John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 16 April 1925: WOMEN IN PRINT. … Few people could have failed to notice the cheerfulness, not to say joviality of the youngsters as they made their way in crowds to the schools yesterday after the fours months of unbroken holiday.… “What about going back to school?” was the question asked of a group making their way to a school at <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Kelburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kelburn</a>. “It’s all right” came as a chorus, and later some young ones who go to school by ferry boat quite declined to wait till a later boat, preferring to get over early in the hope of having some time on the beach—a thing which they had much missed.… the parents were quite as cheerful… considering that all gatherings at seaside, sports, entertainments, and churches were barred. It has been necessary; but it is to be hoped that it will be quite a singular experience…, and that the terrible illness—or any other of epidemic proportions—will not visit these shores again. Medical science and research as they progress should find precautionary measures, and if immediate precautions are taken to isolate the little country so far as epidemical scourges are concerned, it is to be hoped that the experience may never be repeated.… <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250416.2.85" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250416.2.85</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PapersPast</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Epidemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Epidemics</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polio</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wellington</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a>

Maggie MaybeIdk if this is true, but I want to share it just in case someone needs to scam their doctor into vaccinating them against polio and this actually works.<a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/VaccinesWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VaccinesWork</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a>

Christophe Neff<a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/Lesenswert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lesenswert</a> ! <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/Postpoliosyndrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Postpoliosyndrom</a> Schrecken aus der Vergangenheit Deutschland ist zwar seit Jahrzehnten frei von akuter <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/Kinderl%C3%A4hmung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kinderlähmung</a>. Aber bis heute leiden Zehntausende Menschen an den Spätfolgen der Viruserkrankung. Marion Keller-Schneider ist eine von ihnen. <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/derspiegel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#derspiegel</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/Alinaschadwinkel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alinaschadwinkel</a> <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/kinderlaehmung-zehntausende-leiden-unter-dem-post-polio-syndrom-a-60e4ef13-30d0-4f1e-b3c9-ce88c0c98087" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/kinderlaehmung-zehntausende-leiden-unter-dem-post-polio-syndrom-a-60e4ef13-30d0-4f1e-b3c9-ce88c0c98087</a>

DER SPIEGEL | inoffiziellDeutschland ist zwar seit Jahrzehnten frei von akuter Kinderlähmung. Aber bis heute leiden Zehntausende Menschen an den Spätfolgen der Viruserkrankung. Marion Keller-Schneider ist eine von ihnen.<a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=Polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polio</a> <a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=Medizin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medizin</a> <a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=Deutschland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deutschland</a> <a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=DDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DDR</a> <a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=Einr%C3%A4tselhafterPatient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EinrätselhafterPatient</a> <a href="https://anonsys.net/search?tag=Medizin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Medizin</a> <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/kinderlaehmung-zehntausende-leiden-unter-dem-post-polio-syndrom-a-60e4ef13-30d0-4f1e-b3c9-ce88c0c98087#ref=rss" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Post-Polio-Syndrom: Schrecken aus der Vergangenheit</a>

CQ SALK - Polio on the Air '25Up for an evening of not dying of an easily preventable disease, since <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> exist and <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/sciencerules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencerules</a>? Join W7L on FT8 on 20m, 40m, and 80m to celebrate April 12, 1955, the day that the FDA approved the <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaccine</a> and millions of kids got to avoid paralysis and death for the first time. <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/PolioOnTheAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PolioOnTheAir</a>

Peter RileyOn This Day In History <a href="https://mastodon.social/@onthisday" class="u-url mention">@onthisday</a>Today in 1955, 70 years ago: The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#polio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vaccine</a>, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#onThisDay</a>

Knowledge Zone<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/QuizOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QuizOfTheDay</a>: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polio</a>, or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poliomyelitis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poliomyelitis</a>, is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system. It mainly affects children under 5 years of age. Who developed <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vaccine</a> for Polio?A. Robert Koch B. Ferdinand Cohn C. Maurice Hilleman D. Jonas Salk<a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=6618d18b94148247456380cb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/quiz?qId=6618d18b94148247456380cb</a>

Ivi Choc<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FYI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FYI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MicrobeTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MicrobeTV</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TWiV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TWiV</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThisWeekInVirology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThisWeekInVirology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DanielGriffin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DanielGriffin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VincentRacaniello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VincentRacaniello</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/infectiousdiseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infectiousdiseases</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vaccinate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaccinate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#measles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/avianflu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#avianflu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/birdflu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birdflu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/influenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#influenza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RSV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RSV</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#covid19</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#covid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sarscov2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sarscov2</a> TWiV 1208: clinical update week 10.04.2025 Vaccines DO NOT prevent infection! Vaccines prevent death and severe illness. Also vaccinated people don't turn into a superspreader mutation factory if infected.If any, they shed magnitudes less viruses than unvaccinated folks. Vaccinate!

Knowledge Zone<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> Yuri Gagarin becomes first human to travel to outer <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#space</a> (1961). This day is celebrated as International Day of Human Space Flight.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NASA</a> launched the first <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpaceShuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpaceShuttle</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Columbia</a> (1981).The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polio</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vaccine</a>, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective (1955).<a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowledgezone.co.in/news</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦<a href="https://c.im/@TimWardCam" class="u-url mention">@TimWardCam</a> <a href="https://beige.party/@Alice" class="u-url mention">@Alice</a> yupget your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#polio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vaccine</a>i can see polio making a comeback in this environment

Giuseppe Michieli<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/WHO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WHO</a>: <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Statement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Statement</a> of the 41rst <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/meeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meeting</a> of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Polio</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/IHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IHR</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Emergency</a> Committee, <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/10-04-2025-statement-of-the-forty-first-meeting-of-the-polio-ihr-emergency-committee" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.who.int/news/item/10-04-2025-statement-of-the-forty-first-meeting-of-the-polio-ihr-emergency-committee</a> The Committee unanimously agreed that the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/risk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#risk</a> of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#international</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/spread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spread</a> of poliovirus continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PHEIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PHEIC</a>) and recommended extending the Temporary Recommendations for a further three months. In reaching this conclusion, the Committee considered the following factors: ...

Daniel Hoffmann 🥬Explainer about the power of vaccines. Hope that this piece of information spreads faster than than <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#measles</a> or <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a>. Wouldn't it be great to inoculate people in this way against misinformation? <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00862-1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00862-1</a>

earthlingIsrael is preventing the entry of polio vaccines into Gaza, threatening the gains made in seven months of efforts to combat the spread of an epidemic. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention">@palestine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#polio</a>

earthlingAt least 602,000 children in Gaza at risk of permanent paralysisThe Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has likened Israel’s prevention of polio vaccines in the besieged and bombarded territory to “a time bomb that threatens to spread the epidemic”.In a statement, it said 602,000 children in Gaza were at risk of permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities unless they could receive the desperately needed vaccines. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention">@palestine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#children</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#polio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vaccines</a>

Bass #AlleBurgers #EcoHumanist<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/aftab_usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aftab_usa</a> Aftab Khan, MD on X wrote:Childhood <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaccination</a> rates are declining, raising concerns about preventable diseases like <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#measles</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/whoopingcough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#whoopingcough</a> resurging. This drop threatens herd immunity, potentially causing outbreaks, increased hospitalizations, and higher mortality, especially in vulnerable groups. Public health is at risk, and healthcare systems may face greater strain as a result.

Steve Dustcircle 🌹<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SuzanneHumphries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SuzanneHumphries</a> repeats <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/debunked" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#debunked</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/claims" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#claims</a> on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#vaccines</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#polio</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeRogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JoeRogan</a> interview<a href="https://science.feedback.org/review/suzanne-humphries-debunked-claims-vaccines-polio-joe-rogan/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://science.feedback.org/review/suzanne-humphries-debunked-claims-vaccines-polio-joe-rogan/</a>

okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithinHas nobody seen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Oppenheimer</a>? The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apollo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Apollo</a> mission? Has no one seen, with century old technology, what we accomplished against diseases like TB, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#polio</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/malaria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#malaria</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MMR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MMR</a>? What we lack is courage, imagination, and daring. Fuck these retrogrades. Fuck them. Fuck their input or opinions.

Simon CameronPre- vaccine scary world <a href="https://me.dm/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a> <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thewhyhistoryguy/p/the-wooden-lung?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4j1ugn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/thewhyhistoryguy/p/the-wooden-lung?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4j1ugn</a>

Paolo CalleriPolio <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23polio" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polio</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23cartoon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cartoon</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23karikatur" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#karikatur</a>

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