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‘My greatest handicap was the attitude of normal people.’ Alan Marshall’s artful polio memoir, I Can Jump Puddles, turns 70
Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...
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Polio: NICEF targets vaccination for one million Taraba children
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a statewide immunisation campaign aimed at vaccinating over one million children against polio in Taraba State.The campaign was ...
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Ogun urges parents to vaccinate children, unveils immunisation drive
The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker has said that the state plans to vaccinate over 2 million children aged ...
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RFK Jr. made promises about vaccines. Here’s what he’s done as health secretary
During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines.
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From Pulse Polio campaigns to boosting vaccine coverage in children, India’s healthcare efforts lauded globally
Elimination of Polio in 2014 and Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus in 2015, and the recent launch of the Measles Rubella campaign ...
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families
In the time before widespread vaccination, death often came early. Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, ...
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Thousands of children face death as US withdraws critical vaccine funding
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