Stacy Erholtz, a woman with an incurable cancer is now in remission, all credits to a highly concentrated dose of the measles virus enough that it could have served 10 million people. Erholtz, 49, from Pequot Lakes, Minn., battled multiple myeloma, a deadly blood cancer that affects bone marrow, for 10 years. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic say she had received every type of chemotherapy drug … [Read more...]
India officially declared free of polio
Three years after the country went without an endemic case of the disease; the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially certified India, world's second most-populous country, as free of polio. WHO’s Regional Certification Commission, while praising India and southeast Asian countries for their public health efforts, is also certifying southeast Asia as polio-free. The commission in a … [Read more...]
Rare polio-like disease found in California
The researchers have once again come across the scare of polio as another polio-like disease has been discovered in California, where weakness or rapid paralysis in one or more arms and legs in five children here since 2012. The findings of the study are scheduled to be presented at the end of April at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Philadelphia, PA. Study … [Read more...]