The principles of Western Science

" Non-Polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis (NPAFP) is “clinically indistinguishable from polio but twice as deadly,” according to Keith Van Haren, child neurologist at the Stanford School of Medicine. Van Haren explains that Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) is a polite term for polio: “It actually looks just like polio, but that term really freaks out the public-health people.” In 2012, the British Medical Journal wryly noted that polio eradication in India “has been achieved by renaming the disease.” "