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Polio will return with a vengeance if the task of eradicating it is not finished soon 0
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- July 29, 2026
Polio vaccination in Pakistan, where the wild virus continues to circulate.Credit: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty If you are under 60, the global quest to eradicate polio has been with you for most of your adult life. During that time, the natural strain of the virus, also known as wild-type polio, has been eliminated from almost all countries.
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Daily Insight: Can the world finally eradicate polio?0
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- July 26, 2026
You have full access to this article through your institution. Hello Nature Readers, would you like to receive this report in your inbox for free every day? Register here. Goats’ predilection for head-butting could cause brain damage. The researchers allowed three young goats (Capra hircus) to head-butt freely over the course of six months, scanning
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Martha Lillard, the last polio patient in the US who used an iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma 0

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. He died June 26 in Oklahoma and was the last polio patient in the United States to use the machine, his sister said. She was 78 years old. “They told him he wasn’t supposed to