Depressing - Less than halfway through the year, more wild polio cases than all of last year

[OnlinePoker]

In 2017, the number of cases worldwide dropped to 22. We were in sight of eradicating it. Last year the number jumped to 32 and already, this year, 37, all in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Unfortunately, there have been at least a couple of wild polio samples found in Iran this year as well without any cases developing.

http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-now/this-week/

[Submariner]

1. PPS sucks too

In '54 I caught polio and was stricken with partially paralyzed legs for a few weeks. A couple of years ago while scuba diving, I noticed I kept falling back from the group, because my legs were fatiguing quickly becoming very weak.

I sadly had to give up the sport because I was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome (PPS). If caught in a tidal current or downwash over a reef ledge, I run the real risk of my legs tiring too quickly.

The same muscle groups paralyzed when I was a kid are the same muscles fatiguing now. I never heard of "wild" polio cases, but it is obvious polio is something that does not always go away completely.