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TREE CLIMBING: Isolation used in past epidemics | Lifestyles - Herald-Banner TREE CLIMBING: Isolation used in past epidemics | Lifestyles - Herald-Banner 12 diseases and vaccines that can prevent them - Times of India Polio Vaccination Halted In Sabah Areas With High Covid-19 Cases - CodeBlue TREE CLIMBING: Isolation used in past epidemics | Lifestyles - Herald-Banner Posted: 28 Nov 2020 01:30 AM PST Around the middle of March this year, Americans and other residents of our planet Earth were told to "shutter down." Something known as the coronavirus, or, more commonly called COVID-19, had invaded. Soon the disease became a pandemic. The only times Americans used that word were in 1918 at the peak of the Spanish Influence and the Polio pandemic that is still killing people in a few countries today. Polio peaked in 1952 when Dr. Jonas Salk concocted a cure for Polio. There were 21,000 cases o...

Victoria may have eliminated COVID-19, but eradication is a distant dream - The Conversation AU Victoria may have eliminated COVID-19, but eradication is a distant dream - The Conversation AU Over 1 Million Children Tested Positive For Coronavirus In The United States - NPR From polio to COVID: Central Ohio woman joins vaccine trial to help end another outbreak - The Columbus Dispatch Victoria may have eliminated COVID-19, but eradication is a distant dream - The Conversation AU Posted: 26 Nov 2020 01:11 PM PST Today Victoria satisfied a common definition of elimination for COVID-19, recording its 28th consecutive day of zero new cases. While there is no international definition of elimination , two average incubation periods without community transmission is widely accepted as local elimination, especially in a geographically isolated country like Australia. It's a remarkable achievement following a severe second...

COVID-19 continues to mutate -- UNLV researcher hopes to track new strains through - News3LV COVID-19 continues to mutate -- UNLV researcher hopes to track new strains through - News3LV Have you herd (sic), immunity coming soon - The Garden Island Scientists are identifying disease in urban sewage systems - World Economic Forum COVID-19 continues to mutate -- UNLV researcher hopes to track new strains through - News3LV Posted: 25 Nov 2020 05:57 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] COVID-19 continues to mutate -- UNLV researcher hopes to track new strains through    News3LV Have you herd (sic), immunity coming soon - The Garden Island Posted: 26 Nov 2020 02:05 AM PST The scenario, 200 people waiting to be tested for COVID, not one of these people has any symptoms. Some are awaiting tests since they are required for work, some for travel, others for medical procedures, and contract t...

New polio vaccine could boost faltering eradication drive - Science New polio vaccine could boost faltering eradication drive - Science Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Summary The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is about to roll out a brand-new vaccine that just might overcome one of the biggest obstacles to polio eradication: out-of-control outbreaks caused by mutant polio strains derived from the vaccine itself. The new vaccine, a modern, stabilized version of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine, is so urgently needed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has paid for nearly 200 million doses to be produced by an Indonesian manufacturer even before clinical trials are complete. The World Health Organization is ready to grant an emergency use listing, a new approval mechanism never before used for a vaccine, as soon as Indonesia's regulatory authority gives the product the nod. The first drops could be delivered in sever...

LaVO: Central Bucks school nurse nurse Gladys Nelson and the conquest of polio - Bucks County Courier Times LaVO: Central Bucks school nurse nurse Gladys Nelson and the conquest of polio - Bucks County Courier Times Over 1 Million Children Tested Positive For Coronavirus In The United States - NPR Overlooked Telling Details Invite Virus Policy Rethink - CT Examiner LaVO: Central Bucks school nurse nurse Gladys Nelson and the conquest of polio - Bucks County Courier Times Posted: 16 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Carl LaVO  |  Correspondent I remember the other pandemic-like scare. The one in the 1950s paralyzing and killing kids. Mom and Dad sternly warned me and my sisters not to play in puddled water. Nor ride a bicycle through it. Parents believed the water contained the deadly polio virus that caused infantile paralysis. If you got it and were lucky to survive, you might spend the rest of your short life in an "iron lu...