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Polio vaccine in the crossfire of misinformation – Yahoo News Australia
As scientists around the world rush to find a vaccine to stem the spread of Covid-19, another deadly disease, polio, has become the latest target of misinformation campaigns online.
As scientists around the world rush to find a vaccine to stem the spread of Covid-19, another deadly disease, polio, has become the latest target of misinformation campaigns online.
The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrated the announcement on August 25 that Africa had eradicated the wild poliovirus — a landmark in a decades-long fight against the crippling disease.
However, there still exists a version of the illness known as vaccine-derived polio, which occurs in rare incidents when th…
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