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How A Disease That Hasn’t Made News In 60 Years Could Make Headlines In The Next 10

Franklin D. Roosevelt may be the last person you heard of with polio, but doesn’t mean the disease is wiped out. Actually, the opposite could be true if we don’t get our priorities together. 200,000 kids are at risk of paralysis in the next 10 years.

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