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  • How Improved Public Sanitation Created the Polio Epidemic
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    How Improved Public Sanitation Created the Polio Epidemic

    “Better sanitation, not vaccines, eradicated disease” is a favorite, although enormously erroneous, argument against vaccination used by the anti-vaccine community. As with most anti-vax explanations, the argument is glaringly wrong. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared smallpox eradicated following a global immunization campaign that ultimately began after Edward Jenner introduced the first successful smallpox vaccine […] More

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    Labor Lasts Three Hours Longer Now Than in the 1960s

    Fifty years ago, epidural anesthesia was used less often, and, as a result, women today on average take three hours longer to deliver their babies. A new study has found that first time mothers today spend 2.6 hours longer in the first stage of labor. The study compared data from 1959 to 1966 and 2002 […] More