Polio
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- Widely endemic on five continents in 1988, polio is now found only in parts of Africa and south Asia.
- Thus, as LaForce (1983) noted, knowledge about the epidemiology and pathology of polio is essentially frozen at a mid-1950s level.
- Once considered a global menace, polio is now mainly a disease of poverty.
- Polio is preventable by immunization.
- Boosters thereafter are not normally necessary, unless travelling to an area where polio is common, or likely to be exposed to people with polio.
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