Africa declared free of wild polio

Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by ascorbic on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:42AM (#24279812)

I'm not sure how you can call something that kills 400k people per year "not a major threat"

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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by mikorym on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:15AM (#24279983)

> You can easily die in an top EU or US or Singapore hospital [from malaria]

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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by ascorbic on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:20AM (#24301326)

Almost none of those 400k people are dying in Europe or the US though. They're dying in poor countries, mostly in Africa.

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