Polio: the Disease, the History and the Narrative – when Facts Challenge the Politics of Fear

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Polio is brought up in every vaccine debate as the latest, invariable scaremongering. A rhetorical weapon, not a medical argument. But the paradox is that very few actually know what polio is, how the disease occurs, how the body handles the virus, and why only an extremely small proportion ever become paralyzed. Only when you understand the actual mechanism of the disease does it become clear how politicized the story of polio has become. Arnt …