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Polio Rearing Its Ugly Head By Richard Sternberg First COVID-19. Then monkeypox. Now polio. Next, West Nile Virus. And always in the background in Central New York, Lyme disease. The pan-, epi-, and endemics of deadly and disabling diseases doesn’t seem to stop. This week I will try to tackle polio. There are very few people who will read this that remember how much polio terrorized people, especially mothers, in the first half of the 20th century. People become sick,…