The Story of Polio
The story of polio from its earliest beginnings to its expected eradication
The story of polio probably began long ago in the cities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Northern India, where the conditions were right for transmission of the virus – chiefly high population density and rudimentary sanitation. It is a story that experts in Public Health believe will end sometime in the next decade with the eradication of poliovirus only the second human virus to have been eradicated, the other being smallp...
