Ep 64: Polio Makes a Terrible Return

Vax Talk

English - August 15, 2022 15:14 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MB - ★★★★ - 329 ratings
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Remember the old refrain: polio is only a plane ride away? Well, it's hit New York, in the same community that saw a massive measles outbreak in 2019.

We invited the excellent Blima Marcus, a nurse practitioner who worked on building vaccine confidence in this community in 2019, to talk to us about this polio outbreak.