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Sudden Arm or Leg Weakness in a Child Is an Emergency, and Late Summer Is When It Has Appeared Before

CDC reports 17 to 48 annual cases of acute flaccid myelitis since 2020. The condition is rare, but sudden limb weakness in a child needs emergency care.

Medical Daily

Beaten, abandoned but spirit unbroken: The making of Sharmila Dhankar's Commonwealth gold

Sharmila Dhankar overcame domestic abuse and polio to win a gold medal. Her first husband abandoned her with their young daughter after years of violence. She rebuilt her life and found success in para athletics with her second husband's support. Coach Tek Chand recognized her talent and guided her to…

The Economic Times

CDC Publishes Six Years of Acute Flaccid Myelitis Data Ahead of the Condition's Late-Summer Window

CDC surveillance shows 17 to 48 acute flaccid myelitis cases a year since 2020. What AFM is, how it is confirmed, and what parents should watch for.

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Bihar vegetable seller's son wins Commonwealth Games bronze: Meet Jhandu Kumar, who drove an e-rickshaw to fund his training & turned years of taunts over his name into triumph

Jhandu Kumar secured India's first Commonwealth Games medal in para powerlifting. He won bronze in the men's heavyweight event after lifting 190kg. Kumar overcame polio and taunts to achieve this significant sporting success. He previously drove an e-rickshaw to fund his training and supplements. Kumar now aims to break world…

The Economic Times

'People laughed at my name': Jhandu's bronze a triumph over taunts and adversity

Jhandu Kumar secured India's first Commonwealth Games medal in para powerlifting. He won a bronze medal in the men's heavyweight category with a total of 130.9 points. Kumar overcame polio and taunts to achieve this significant sporting accomplishment. He previously drove an e-rickshaw to finance his diet and supplements for…

The Economic Times

Antiquated Devices and Diseases: The Survivors of the Iron Lung and Polio and How They Lived Full Lives

Martha Lillard and Paul Alexander survived decades in iron lungs after polio. Their stories reveal how vaccines transformed a once-devastating disease.

Medical Daily

Gates Foundation finds no evidence of wrongdoing in Epstein review, approves new governance measures

The Gates Foundation conducted an external review that concluded there was no evidence of misconduct related to its interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. The foundation emphasized that its main dealings were centered on a potential fund and grants for polio eradication. In response, its Governing Board unanimously approved new governance measures,…

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A six-year-old entered an iron lung after polio. More than 70 years later, he had become the world’s longest-known survivor

For many people, the iron lung belongs to history books, a symbol of the years when polio swept through communities before vaccines transformed public health. Rows of large metal cylinders once filled hospital wards, keeping patients alive when damaged muscles could no longer draw breath. Most disappeared decades ago as…

The Times of India

The End of the Iron Lung Era Doesn't Mean the End of Polio Risk

The death of Martha Lillard, the last American to rely on an iron lung for polio, marks the end of an era but not the end of the disease's legacy. Her story highlights the lasting effects of polio, post-polio syndrome, and the importance of vaccination.

Medical Daily

Can Polio Affect You Decades Later? Mitch McConnell's Fall Draws Attention to Post-Polio Syndrome

Mitch McConnell's recent fall has drawn attention to post-polio syndrome, a condition that can cause new muscle weakness and mobility problems decades after recovery from polio.

Medical Daily

Martha Lillard, last known US polio survivor using iron lung, dies aged 78

Lillard, of Oklahoma, contracted polio when she was five and slept inside cylindrical metal device to help her breathe

The Guardian - US

How Canada’s vaccine infrastructure helped guard against infectious disease during the FIFA World Cup

As World Cup fans cheer at the quarterfinals, concerns remain about the health of Norway’s players, several of whom are recovering from what turned out to be mild illness. Other international players had expressed concern earlier about measles in the Americas.

The Conversation

Woman, 78, Last Polio Survivor Living In Iron Lung, Passes Away After Machine Becomes Too Old To Repair

Martha Lillard, the last known U.S. iron lung user, passed away after decades of living with polio’s effects.

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Last US polio patient using an iron lung to survive dies in Oklahoma

The coronavirus pandemic took a severe toll on Lillard’s already compromised health

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Tata AIG rejects mediclaim saying policyholder hid a disease: Court says 'insurance companies are only interested in premiums'; orders insurer to pay over Rs 60K

Tata AIG ordered compensation: A consumer court in Haryana has directed Tata AIG to pay a policyholder after finding the insurer wrongly rejected his mediclaim over an alleged pre-existing illness. The commission ruled Tata AIG failed to back its allegations with legally admissible evidence and awarded Rs 40,246 along with…

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I Drove A Range Rover Classic With A Chevy V8—It's Delightfully Wrong

We love a bit of nostalgia in the UK. The ‘they don’t make ‘em like they used to’ crowd can be found, well, everywhere, decrying how it was better in the old days, and how the youth of today don’t have enough polio or respect for the gray, frowny people…

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Stanford Ran 2,000 Simulations on What Happens When Vaccines Disappear: Results Are Devastating

Stanford researchers simulate the impact of ending childhood vaccinations in the US, predicting millions of cases and deaths from diseases like measles and polio over 25 years.

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29 Medical Devices From The Past That Might Make You Grateful For Modern Healthcare (New Pics)

Modern medicine helps us stay healthy and recover from illnesses that once had no cure. But getting here took centuries of experimentation, and not every method along the way was reassuring. In fact, some were the exact opposite. As medicine evolved through trial and error, plenty of strange devices were…

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The Independent UK

Suspected militants kill police officer assigned to guard polio team as nationwide campaign begins

Suspected militants have opened fire on a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing one of them and wounding four others

The Guardian - UK

Funding is vital to end the scourge of polio

Letter: The government is cutting contributions at a critical stage in the campaign to eradicate the disease, writes Gillian Russell

The Independent UK

We are so close to eradicating polio – the UK cannot afford to let progress slip

COMMENT: The UK’s decision to withdraw funding from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative sends precisely the wrong signal to the world about the value we place on this crucial effort for the health of others and health security for all, writes Timothy Hallett

The Guardian - UK

Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding

Campaigner criticises ‘shortsighted and self-defeating’ decision and says it increases risk to the UK public

The Independent UK

Mary Berry shares personal heartbreak behind new book

TV chef Mary Berry is releasing her first gardening book, My Gardening Life, a horticultural memoir and guide published just before her 91st birthday. She shares that gardening became a significant source of comfort and therapy after the tragic death of her son, William, in a 1989 car accident. Berry's…

The Conversation

Friday essay: my mother survived polio – stories like hers show why vaccination matters

Measles cases have already been reported in most states in Australia this year. Cases tripled here last year, compared with the previous one. It’s hard to believe just over a decade earlier, in 2014, the disease had been declared eliminated in Australia by the World Health Organization, thanks to the…

The Guardian - UK

Tony Gould obituary

Other lives: Literary editor of New Society and New Statesman who wrote a social history of polio, a disease he contracted in his late teens

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