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2026-07-23 Science & Technology

The polio story as you learned it is wrong. It's one of the most often misunderstood sequence of events in the last two hundred years.

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-23 10:38|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [352 views ] Top

1 Before this fellow, I wouldn't have given this story the time of day.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-23 10:48|| 2026-07-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

2 Still rampant in Pakistan with out a major influence of arsenic, lead, mercury and pesticides as here.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-07-23 10:54|| 2026-07-23 10:54|| Front Page Top

3 How does the genius who wrote this explains the disappearance of Polio with the advent of immunization?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-07-23 11:14|| 2026-07-23 11:14|| Front Page Top

4 Grom I had a friend that spent as a kid a year in the hospital. They only fed him rice and cheese.

Odds are the second wave's virus mutated. Guessing.

Posted by Woodrow 2026-07-23 20:21|| 2026-07-23 20:21|| Front Page Top

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