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    introduction of a polio vaccine in 1955, infection was common, with epidemics during the summer and autumn of temperate countries. Polio eradication efforts...
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    Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring at about a 25–40% rate (latest data...
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    The history of polio (poliomyelitis) infections began during prehistory. Although major polio epidemics were unknown before the 20th century, the disease...
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  • with polio in 1921 (or potentially misdiagnosed, see List of polio survivors), and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now the March of Dimes)...
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    be fully vaccinated against polio. The two vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world, and reduced the number of cases reported each year from...
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    POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms...
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    Ted Landsmark (category Boston University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni)
    polio as a child. 2005 - Boston Society of Architects Award of Honor 2006 - American Institute of Architects Whitney M. Young Jr. Award List of polio...
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    of polio vaccines. Although historical accounts continue to refer to Roosevelt's case as polio, the diagnosis has been questioned in the context of modern...
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  • Robin Cavendish (category Polio survivors)
    devices of its type, with Cavendish eventually using a total of 10 different chairs. Determined that mobility should be available to other polio survivors, Cavendish...
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  • Devil Gets The Blues - 2016 Blues Back Home (1984) List of Delta blues musicians List of polio survivors Pareles, Jon (October 1, 2017). "CeDell Davis, Bluesman...
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    The 1916 New York City polio epidemic was an infectious disease epidemic of polio ultimately infecting several thousand people, and killing over two thousand...
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  • musicology of Brent Logan of Oregon who had adapted the work of child psychologist Lee Salk (whose brother Jonas Salk had invented a vaccine for polio) in the...
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    University of (2018-01-18). "Remembering Australia's polio scourge". Pursuit. Retrieved 2020-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)...
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    needed] As of October 2012, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan still had wild polio, but it had been eliminated in India. In 2014, polio survivor and Rotarian...
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  • Marilyn Saviola (category Polio survivors)
    History Project at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California. List of polio survivors Genzlinger, Neil (December 1, 2019). "Marilyn Saviola, Disability...
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    This is a list of circumnavigations of Earth. Sections are ordered by ascending date of completion. The 18 survivors, led by Juan Sebastián Elcano (Spanish)...
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  • Cate Jenkins (category Polio survivors)
    survived polio in childhood. Jenkins accused Monsanto of falsifying a study on Agent Orange's carcinogenity and was wrongly transferred out of her job...
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  • paralysed from the neck down by polio at age 28 Britney Ever After (2017) – biographical drama film based on the life of Britney Spears The Case for Christ...
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    Ray Peterson (category Polio survivors)
    time of his death, sources gave 1939 as his year of birth. As a boy he had polio. Having a four-octave singing voice, Peterson moved to Los Angeles, California...
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  • Ashwin Mahesh (category Polio survivors)
    part of the Kaliloka team documenting the vernacular architectural traditions of the different districts of Karnataka. Ashwin is a childhood polio survivor...
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  • Polio and Its Survivors. Yale University Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-300-07276-1. Shell, Marc (30 June 2009). Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of...
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  • asked for Polio by name before the officers were ordered to release Amy Bishop. Judy, Polio, and his wife all testified that Judy and Polio had not been...
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  • Christopher Anne Templeton (category Polio survivors)
    and named after the character of Christopher Robin in the Winnie The Pooh books written by A. A. Milne. She contracted polio at six months. She managed to...
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    I Victoria Cross recipient (23 March 1927), dying of polio "So many people who knew the condition of Amritsar say I did right...but so many others say...
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  • 'Annie Live!' Casts Actor Alan Toy As Franklin Delano Roosevelt: First Polio Survivor To Play Role". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 15, 2021. Petski...
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  • Plummer–Vinson syndrome POEMS syndrome Poland syndrome Polar T3 syndrome Polio-like syndrome Polycystic ovary syndrome Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome...
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    Barbara Lang (film actress) (category Polio survivors)
    production of Party Girl (1958), Lang played "Ginger D'Amour", a Chicago showgirl of the 1930s. After surviving and recovering from polio, Lang went into...
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  • This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the...
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  • Jock McAvoy (category Polio survivors)
    stricken with polio and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He had survived both diphtheria and a broken neck prior to his bout with polio. Suffering...
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    Ida Lupino (category Polio survivors)
    loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio; Outrage (1950), one of the first films about rape; The Bigamist (1953), and The Trouble...
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