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Polio Can Be Beaten If U.S. Protects Vaccination Efforts: View
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In the history of medicine, only one disease has ever been eradicated, but it was a terrible one. Smallpox, which claimed 2 million lives in 1967, was stamped out by 1980 through an enormous vaccine campaign.
Today the world has a shot at a second such triumph, this time over polio. It will take more than good medicine to succeed. It will also require good politics.