Category: Polio
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Poliomyelitis as a Crippling and Potentially Lethal Communicable Disease
Polio continues to be a global public health issue, and even though it has been eliminated from most of the republics of the world, some countries, threatens the dream of total elimination of polio from the surface of the world. The spreading of polio virus has never been eliminated in some countries, but even worse…
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Review of Seth Mnookin’s ‘The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear’
‘The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear’ by Seth Mnookin, published in January 2011. Seth Mnookin is an American writer, journalist, and media reporter for Undark Magazine’s podcast and contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Mnookin is the author of three books with a non-fiction genre, and one of these books is…