In just three years, the scourge of polio may be gone forever from our planet.
This is incredible news. Polio, or more officially poliomyelitis, is a horrible virus that paralyzes 1 in 200 people infected, and kills 5-10 percent of them when it immobilizes the muscles needed to breathe. Put more simply, the virus causes these victims to slowly suffocate.
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