Top 7 Deadly Diseases You Believe Have Disappeared

#7 – Polio

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Poliomyelitis, Polio or infantile paralysis is a disease that leads to muscle weakness resulting in incapability of moving. Before the vaccines were developed in the 1950s, 35,000 people got paralyzed in the United States.

Sadly, this disease is still affecting people today, but on a much smaller scale. According to 2015 data, there were 73 people who caught the polio virus in Pakistan and Afghanistan.