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"Polio is starting to slowly become a thing," Where?

• overtone1000 9mo ago
  It's more accurate to say the wild poliovirus eradication effort has been stagnant in Afghanistan and Pakistan for over a decade.
  • BLKNSLVR 9mo ago
    And relatively recently there were a fair few US citizens rotating in and out of Afghanistan.
    • giantg2 9mo ago
      And they received vaccines appropriate for their deployment. Similar to Yellow Fever - not required in the US, but required related to travel to/from risky areas.
• jmclnx 9mo ago
  I did a simple search, here it is. A .gov site: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/ There were other articles I have seen over the last few years talking about polio and the US.
  • giantg2 9mo ago
    Yeah, that's from the vaccine. Just don't use the live version of the vaccine.