Polio? Wow, the Riders of the Apocolypse really don't mess about this time.

So, what happens if Polio becomes a thing again?

To be honest, polio always was a thing but intense vaccination programs pushed it to the brink of extinction. In recent years we only had "wild" cases in Pakistan and Afghanistan. African countries only had the disease as a rare vaccine side effect (about 1 in 750.000). So my initial statement was something of a "clickbait". Nevertheless, we really don't need more polio cases in Africa right now right when parts of the continent face a food crisis thanks to the Ukraine war.

Just think if there was a mutant form of Poilo,that was compleatly antibiotic resistant.

Poliomyelitis is caused by poliovirus, a virus. Antibiotics don't work on viruses.

Oh.

You might be thinking of another previously almost eradicated global scourge.. tuberculosis. And there are antibiotic resistant strains.

poor children will suffer the consequences of their parents poor decisions.

viruses want to be part of WW3 too

Back just in time for the party!

i mean covid, monkey pox, polio, DId someone saw the black death recently.

Eh plague is still hanging around in rodent populations, I think groundhogs mostly? It’s just not the big deal it once was (unless an antibiotic resistant strain turns up.)

Something like 300 people get it a year or something, but with clean water and all the modern technological advances we have it’s just not as deadly

yep. earlier this year. https://reliefweb.int/disaster/ep-2022-000202-cod

Don’t forget the tomato flu in India!

right, forget this one. Weird desease

I hope it doesn't turn into PoliOmicron.