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Idaho races Florida to see who can bring back polio first  Boing Boing Idaho Enacts Landmark Medical Freedom Law Banning Vaccine Mandates  mezha.net After success in Idaho, anti-vaccine activists want to export their idiocy nationwide  StartupNews.fyi Vaccine rejectionist activists got Idaho to ban shot mandates. They’re now targeting the rest of the country  Genetic Literacy Project Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make …

A patient in an iron lung being checked by a nurse in 1938. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) IN THE SPRING OF 1954, hundreds of thousands of American schoolchildren lined up to receive the Salk vaccine. I was in the fifth grade, feeling oddly sad. I fully appreciated the profound good news that a cure had been found for polio, a …

“Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard” is a perfect musical critique of RFK, Jr.  Boing Boing Source link

Quick takes: US COVID rise, at-home FluMist launch, polio in 4 countries  CIDRAP AstraZeneca launches at-home FluMist nasal spray delivery  ABC News It’s now possible to give yourself a flu vaccine at home  CNN FLUMIST® (Influenza, Vaccine Live, Intranasal), the nation’s only nasal spray flu vaccine, now available for home delivery  AstraZeneca US Needle-phobic? FluMist nasal spray vaccine available in lieu of flu shot  NBC …

Abuja and Nasarawa, Nigeria – In the neighbourhood of Kado Lifecamp on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, 29-year-old Eucharia Joseph grips a cooler box and sets out for her day. Inside are oral polio vaccines packed in ice. Joseph’s route takes her through dusty lanes, past tin-roofed homes, mosques and churches. By nightfall, she and her team of six women …

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — For nearly four decades, the World Health Organization and partners have been trying to rid the world of polio, a paralytic disease that has existed since prehistoric times. While cases have dropped more than 99%, polio remains entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In its quest to eliminate the virus, WHO and its partners in …

Facebook Tweet Email Link For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global campaign to wipe out the paralytic disease. She hears their demands and fears. Some are practical – families need basics like food and water more than …

Quick Takes: US COVID uptick, new polio cases in 4 countries, measles outbreak in Michigan  CIDRAP Source link

Measles, rubella and polio: The return of preventable diseases  NewsNationView Full Coverage on Google News Source link