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• n  an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

• Doctors are pretty well agreed that it is unwise to remove tonsils or adenoids while polio is rampant: within a month or two after such an operation, an invasion by the polio virus .
• A Nigerian schoolboy is vaccinated against polio during a mass nationwide polio inoculation April 12, 2005, in Kano, Nigeria.
• Many scientists were racing to make a polio vaccine in the '50s -- but he got there first.

• poliomyelitis
• infantile paralysis
• acute anterior poliomyelitis

News & Articles

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• Polio survivor seeks crutches, canes for needy disabled Africans
  A man with polio is on a mission to help others fighting the same disease get the necessary equipment to perform everyday tasks. There is now a local effort to donate life-changing devices.
  June 12, 2013 - KCTV 5 Kansas City
• Pakistanis: Give Us Electricity, or We Won't Vaccinate Our Kids Against Polio
  A last-ditch protest for more government services could have an impact on the country's anti-polio efforts.        
  June 11, 2013 - The Atlantic
• Local survivors of polio overcome physical barriers
  When life handed Toni Reif a challenge more than six decades ago and polio began battering her muscles and nerve ends, she fiercely fought the virus through braces, operations and exercises.
  June 10, 2013 - St. Cloud Times

Quotes

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• Rick Perry in Dallas Morning News
  I set my sights on the day when we talk about cancer the same way we talk about polio - a terrible disease that used to harm and kill a lot of our citizens, but no more,Mr. Perry said in a bill-signing ceremony at Dallas' UT Southwestern...
• Bill Gates in International Herald Tribune
  I'm very optimistic that we will succeed (with eradicating polio),said Gates, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which donated $255 million.
• Margaret Chan in Washington Post
  This investment is precisely the catalyst we need as we intensify the push to finish polio,Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a statement.