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How The Oral Polio Vaccine Can Cause Polio

NPR - Jason Beaubien

One of the vaccines used to prevent polio has actually been causing some people to get the disease. Just last month, the World Health Organization announced that two of three strains of polio had been eradicated. It's been one of the great success stories of modern medicine. The disease, which, of …

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