Word: polio
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...basic things: a good job at good pay, affordable health insurance for themselves and their families, quality education for their children, economic security in old age. We can achieve all of this. In our country's past, we rose to greater challenges: we ended slavery, won World Wars, eradicated polio, put men on the moon. The New American Story is telling us that we can, once again, make great things happen...
...Some successes have come from the estimated $493 million U.S. agencies have spent on health care reconstruction projects in Iraq nonetheless. Child immunization campaigns have made impressive gains, with more than 80% of one-year-olds vaccinated against polio and other easily preventable diseases. But on the whole, the health care picture in Iraq remains bleak. Hospitals like Shuwetij's face chronic shortages as medicine and supplies. And of course the doctors keep leaving. Shuwetij says 10 of the doctors on his staff have fled Iraq in recent years after getting threats. The remaining doctors at the hospital, which...
...is1956, and Hoose is the new kid in his Indiana town, a klutzy, nearsighted third-grader who wears trousers a bit too high. Then his parents deliver the news "on the order of a cure for polio": Don Larsen--a New York Yankee!--is his cousin once removed. The kid and the star trade letters, they meet, and Hoose gains courage and acceptance. When Larsen throws his iconic perfect game in the World Series that October, "even a few girls came over" to the boy's desk. Hoose reconnects with the player 50 years later, expecting to find a "half...
...Even more disturbing are the global implications of such paranoia. Dr. Jafari says that genetic analysis shows that the strain of polio from Uttar Pradesh, in the past couple of years, has left India, and spread to at least three African countries that had made great strides against polio - Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This year, he says, the Uttar Pradesh strain of the polio virus has leapt out of India and reinfected two polio-free neighboring countries: Bangladesh and Nepal. "This shows that the continuation of polio in one country is a threat...
...Some countries are taking the renewed threat of polio very seriously. Last year, Saudi Arabia announced that all travelers from countries with polio, under the age of 15, would have to show valid proofs of vaccination before they got a visa to enter the country. India's health minister, Anbumani Ramadoss, stung by criticism, announced recently that that he will step up his government's efforts to eliminate polio in the country - and make a special effort to reach out to India's Muslims. "We are going to have a special program to enlighten them," he told the press recently...