(I'm unable to edit, so I want to add this note: polio is not eradicated, and the discussion surrounding its purported eradication seems, to me, to have a whiff

(I'm unable to edit, so I want to add this note: polio is not eradicated, and the discussion surrounding its purported eradication seems, to me, to have a whiff of racism or even colonialism. Although outbreaks happen and gain media notoriety in Africa, let's keep in mind that, when we started doing more serious pathogen surveillance in sewage systems during the SARS-COV-2 outbreak, we found it in the USA too.)