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The stigma associated with polio was not just that one was a "cripple" but that one came from an impoverished background.
Though polio was not eradicated, reported cases and outbreaks which had been devastating in the past were largely avoided.
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He'd managed to catch the dreaded polio — wasn't that childish of him?
A friend who had polio wasn't about to ask the driver to lower the wheelchair lift so he could board.
But the W.H.O.'s chief of polio eradication and the chief doctor for the United Nations refugee agency disputed their warning, saying polio wasn't more likely to spread from Syria and Israel than other countries with domestic outbreaks and large expatriate communities in Europe and North America, including Somalia, Nigeria and Pakistan.
"Polio is not an emergency case.
But tackling polio is not only about altruism.
Nonetheless, the eradication of polio is not a luxury.
However, teenagers, who were also vulnerable to polio, were not taking up the vaccine," Mawdsley told the Observer.
Since polio is not seen as a threat in the Global North, it is of low priority and its treatment is not part of doctors' training.
Countries will continue to give children polio vaccines as part of their routine immunization package, but 80 nations where polio is not found will no longer have supplementary vaccination days.
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