I had had polio as a baby, and had difficulty in walking. By age twelve, after a series of operations, I could walk by myself, but one of my feet was smaller than the other. When I turned fifteen, my mother signed me up for a dancing school with boys. She took me shopping at...
At the age of six, she suffered an attack of polio. Left with one leg shorter and thinner, she did a lot of sports to rebuild her strength. At 14, she entered one of Mexico's best schools. In her early teens, she was preparing for a career in medicine, until she suffered a serio...
In the early months of the COVID pandemic, friends of Stephen Sondheim orchestrated an online party to celebrate the Broadway great's 90th birthday. The star-studded event almost went off without one Tony Award-winner, who ended up advocating for herself with an online posting: "This is very...
TOLOnews contacted the affected child, Marwa, who is age six. Marwa is from Goroko village of Dur-Baba district of Nangarhar. According to family members, Marwa has been vaccinated but still got affected by polio. “No one tells us anything. We have found out here that she is affected. ...
Children who were wasted before the age of 6 months had a faster recovery and shorter episodes than did children who were wasted at older ages; however, early wasting increased the risk of later growth faltering, including concurrent wasting and stunting (low length-for-age z-score), and ...
Children are particularly at risk, with high rates of malnutrition and increased susceptibility to diseases like polio, measles, pertussis, and diphtheria. Nearly 2.4 million children under the age of five, comprising half of Yemen's children in that age group, are experiencing moderate to severe ...
How Polio Has Returned to Haunt Its Victims in Old Age; as Children They Survived Deadly Epidemics, Now Thousands Face Being Crippled Decades LaterRead the full-text online article and more details about "How Polio Has Returned to Haunt Its Victims in Old Age; as Children They Survived Deadly...
World Pneumonia Day is observed on November 12th to raise awareness about Pneumonia and its prevention. This is considered the world's leading infectious disease, with children under the age of five being the most affected. 13th November-World Kindness Day ...
Vitamin A tablets are also given to children under the age of five at the same time as the polio vaccination,” the spokesman said. Afghanistan and Pakistan are among the countries in the world where the polio virus has not been eradicated. Some citizens of the country asked the Ministry ...
This is the first analysis where fexinidazole is the default treatment, but to reflect the caution in the WHO guidelines, 65% of simulated patients were assumed to be treated with NECT or on an in-patient basis due to late-stage detection, low body weight, or the young age of the pati...