POLIO: WE NEED PROTECTION FROM STUPID PEOPLE WHO JEOPARDIZE LIVES!
This is from 2012: WHO Calls For Emergency Action On Polio excerpt: WBUR's Bob Oakes reflects on his own experience with polio as the World Health Organization calls for a new push to eradicate the disease, which is still a problem in the developing world. Oakes was diagnosed when he was nine months old, in 1955. "When I woke one morning I was unable to move in my crib, so my parents immediately took me to a doctor, and I was pretty quickly diagnosed with having caught the disease that was sweeping the nation at that point," he said. Polio can cause paralysis in the arms and legs, or cause the muscles and bones to atrophy. https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2012/05/24/polio-emergency Bob Oakes recently stepped back after almost 3 decades of hosting Morning Edition. During a recent lengthy broadcast, he spoke at length about the numerous surgeries he endured during the summer to restore mobility, as well as the recurrence in his later years that imposes limits....
