509 - The Threat of Polio
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The first case of paralytic polio in New York in decades has focused attention on a devastating virus with a long and terrible history. Olakunle Alonge, an associate professor of international health at Johns Hopkins, who's worked on polio eradication efforts around the world, speaks to Josh Sharfstein about what's behind the rise in cases and how the world can defeat polio—forever.
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| 1:31.4 | listening. Today, polio. I speak to Dr. Olakunle Alonge, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins |
| 1:39.4 | Bloomberg School of Public Health who studies polio eradication efforts around the world. |
| 1:45.1 | I asked him what's happening now and what can we do about it. |
| 1:49.5 | In this podcast, Dr. Alongay sometimes refers to the live oral polio vaccine as OPEV |
| 1:56.6 | and to the killed, inactivated polio vaccine as IPV. |
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