I had polio in the 1950s. RFK Jr.’s vaccine policy proposals are dangerous.
Polio might seem like a disease of the distant past, but I know its dangers firsthand. To revoke governmental approval of the ...
来自MSN9 个月
What is the iron lung that kept 'Polio Paul' alive for more than 70 years — and how does ...
Almost a century ago, the first iron lung was born offering new hope to polio sufferers. Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz of Harvard University devised the machine in 1927. They had a clever idea ...
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What Kennedy Has Said About the Polio Vaccine in Recent Years
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S. By ...
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‘Polio Paul’ Alexander, who spent 72 years inside iron lung, dead at 78
In 1959, 1,200 Americans relied on an iron lung to stay alive, but the machines gradually became less common after widespread distribution of the polio vaccine. In 1979, the US was declared polio ...