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    THE YEAR POLIO GETS TO ZERO

    THE WORLD’S LAST CASE OF POLIO MAY HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED. WE WILL KNOW SOON
    by JEFFREY KLUGER Dec 25, 2017 3 minutes
    Lallan, a 16-year-old Indian boy, contracted polio when he was 7. In the rural area where he lives, the vaccine was unknown

    THERE ISN’T A BIG FARKET FOR POLIOVIRUS PLUSH TOYS. They’re not much to look at—about the size of a softball and a sort of ashen gray. That’s a fitting color: polios is Greek for gray, and it’s the gray matter in the central nervous system that the virus attacks, robbing children of the ability to walk, if it doesn’t kill them first. It would be the rare parent who would want even a cuddly likeness of so lethal a thing anywhere near a healthy baby.

    But the plush toys were much

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