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The Death of a Disease: A History of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis

Book by Bernard Seytre, Mary Shaffer; Rutgers University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis Vaccine--History, Poliomyelitis--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...aftereffects, 11-13, 16, 18- 19, 20-22, 40-41. See also paralysis polio, complications of, 12 polio, treatment of, 6, 12, 34 Polio Pioneer, 65-66 poliomyelitis, etymology,l0 Polioplus, 104 poliovirus, 5, 9, 24, 45-50, 58...
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In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History

Book by Kathryn Black; Addison-Wesley, 1996

Subjects:

Black, Virginia--D. 1956--Health, Poliomyelitis--Patients--Arizona--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...118 -21 "Polio pioneers, " 221 , 222 Polio poliomyelitis . See also Polio epidemics age of onset, 27 characteristics...widespread vaccination, encouraging, 231 -33 Polio wards, 9 , 10 Poliomyelitis Research Center, 217
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Polio: An American Story

Book by David M. Oshinsky; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...syndrome, 28 guilt associated with polio, 84 Haas, Victor, 222-24...Hippocrates, 10, 35 history of polio, 8-12 A History of Poliomyelitis (Paul), 207 Hobby, Oveta...70, 172-73 incidence of polio, 64-65, 81, 1, 162, 185...
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The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age

Book by Jack A. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1994

Subjects:

Handicapped In Mass Media, Handicapped--United States--Social Conditions, Mass Media--United States

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...presently in a hospital or under a doctors immediate care. Do not say, "He was a polio patient," but rather "He had polio." See Client. Polio: Poliomyelitis; an acute infectious viral disease resulting in paralysis because of damage to...
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Immunization: The Reality behind the Myth

Book by Walene James; Bergin & Garvey, 1995

Subjects:

Alternative Medicine, Immunization Of Children--Complications, Immunization--Complications, Natural Immunity

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...39 Poisoned Needle, The , 26 Polio poliomyelitis : causes, 53 - 54 , 61 ; "creative...53 - 54 , 61 - 63 ; related to polio vaccines, 45 , 234 , 235 ; related...See also Vaccines, "Mandated" Polio Foundation of California, 61 Poser...

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Biographical Truths and Their Clinical Consequences: Understanding 'embodied Memories' in a Third Psychoanalysis with a Traumatized Patient Recovered from Severe Poliomyelitis

Journal article by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber; International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 89, 2008

Subjects:

Patients, Psychoanalysis, Sex crimes

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...literature survey on Poliomyelitis it seeems to me that...Section 2). 2. Polio in the psychoanalytical...the viral disease of poliomyelitis has practically disappeared...Organization to have poliomyelitis eradicated by 2002...understandable that polio often appeared as a...
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Parents' Awareness and Perception of the Polio Eradication Programme in Gombe Local Government Area, Gombe State, Nigeria

Journal article by J.A. Obute, O.S. Arulogun; International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, Vol. 45, 2007

Subjects:

Community health services--Management, Health promotion--Management, Health promotion--Services, Parents--Behavior, Parents--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Poliomyelitis--Care and treatment

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...Key words: polio eradication...Introduction Poliomyelitis remains a serious...believed that polio is a serious...susceptible to poliomyelitis and 214 (50...the disease poliomyelitis. They described polio as a disease...
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Conquering the Crippler: Canada and the Eradication of Polio/pour Invalider la Polio: le Canada et L'éradication de la Polio

Journal article by Christopher J. Rutty, Luis Barreto, Rob Van Exan, Shawn Gilchrist; Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 96, 2005

Subjects:

Annual reports, Clinical trials, Conferences, Disease management, Environmental health, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Poliomyelitis, Poliovirus Vaccines, Public health, Sexually transmitted diseases--STD

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...of the Canadian polio story, see: Christopher...Do Anything! Poliomyelitis in Canada, 1927...Report on the Poliomyelitis Epidemic in Manitoba...1929). 14. Polio Serum Filling Cards...Vaccine after DPT Polio Vaccine," CMAJ...78. 68. Wild Poliomyelitis in the Netherlands...
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Reducing Resistance against Polio Drops

Journal article by M. Athar Ansari, Z. Khan, I. M. Khan; Perspectives in Public Health, Vol. 127, 2007

Subjects:

Districts, Families & family life, Family planning, Health services, Houses, Muslims, Poliomyelitis, Religion, Religious conversion, Side effects, Social workers

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Reducing Resistance against Polio Drops by M. Athar Ansari...carried out in India to eradicate poliomyelitis. Although the wild poliovirus...epicentre for most of the cases of polio in India. This part of Uttar...Globally there were 1250 cases of polio in 2004. Out of these cases...
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Whatever Happened to Polio?

Journal article by Lynne M. Dunphy; Nursing History Review, Vol. 16, 2008

Subjects:

American history, Clinical trials, Disability, Museum exhibits, Poliomyelitis, Presentations, Web sites

Collections: History, Entire Library

Whatever Happened to Polio? by Lynne M. Dunphy Whatever Happened to Polio? Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American...Company. See http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/. It is with great pleasure that I offer this media...

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Polio Is Nearing Eradication

Magazine article by Lisa Mastny; World Watch, Vol. 12, March 1999

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis--Vaccination, Vaccination of children--International aspects, World Health Organization--Social policy

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...vaccination campaign to eradicate polio by the year 2000. Over the...record (the actual number of polio cases is thought to be ten...particularly prior to discovery of the polio vaccine in the 1950s, the poliomyelitis virus was considered one of...
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Kicking Polio out of Africa

Magazine article by Kwame Hardi; African Business, February 2001

Subjects:

Africa--Health aspects, Developing countries--Health aspects, Health care industry--Services, Medical care, Poliomyelitis--Prevention, Public health

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...Hardi Could Africa see the end of polio - a crippling disease which creates...vaccine development? Amassive polio vaccination campaign has taken...young. Most of them are victims of poliomyelitis, polio for short. Battle against polio...
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WHO Launches Effort to Eradicate Polio by Year 2000

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 26, September 1989

Subjects:

Environmental health--International aspects, Koop, C. Everett--Achievements and awards, Mortality--Statistics, Nursing--International aspects, Poliomyelitis--Prevention, Tobacco--Physiological aspects, World Health Assembly--Resolutions, World Health Organization--Health aspects

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...launches effort to eradicate polio by year 2000 A detailed plan to eradicate poliomyelitis by the year 2000 was approved...Public Health, presided. The polio plan of action is based on...laboratory diagnostic services. Polio is one of the six major childhood...
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The Fear of Vaccines: Fear That a Vaccine Used by the WHO to Combat Polio Can Cause Sterility in Both Men and Women, Has Spurred Some Northern Nigerian States to Block a Crucial Vaccination Campaign That Is Aimed at Eradicating the Disease from West Africa by the End 2004. It Reminds Me of My Boyhood in Ghana

Magazine article by Cameron Duodu; New African, April 2004

Subjects:

Infertility--Health aspects, Nigeria--Health aspects, Poliomyelitis vaccine--Health aspects, Poliomyelitis--Prevention, Poliovirus vaccines--Health aspects, Vaccination--Social aspects, World Health Organization--Services

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...Vaccine Used by the WHO to Combat Polio Can Cause Sterility in Both...over a vaccination against poliomyelitis, the deadly disease that withers...that is aimed at eradicating polio from West Africa by the end...WHO has reduced the number of polio cases worldwide to less than...
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A New Challenge for Former Polio Patients

Magazine article by Evelyn Zamula; FDA Consumer, Vol. 25, June 1991

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis--Prevention, Sabin, Albert B.--Research, Salk, Jonas E.--Research, Vaccination--Standards

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A New Challenge for Former Polio Patients. by Evelyn Zamula...nearly 10 when she contracted polio, she has almost no memory...Americans who had paralytic poliomyelitis 30, 40, even 70 years ago...in what is known as post-polio syndrome. They complain of...

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Groups Seek to End Polio in 4 Nations

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 30, 2006

Subjects:

Nonprofit organizations, Poliomyelitis, Rotary International, Virus diseases--Control

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...leading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative that includes...made a $25 million grant for a polio immunization drive in the four...critical milestones closer to polio, or poliomyelitis,eradication, including an end...
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Don't Just Dismiss This Link with ME and Polio; Jane Colby: She Believes That ME Is Related to Polio

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 27, 2007

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis--Personal narratives, Virus diseases--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Dont Just Dismiss This Link with ME and Polio; Jane Colby: She Believes That ME Is Related to Polio. VICTORIA LAMBERTS appreciation of poliomyelitis and post-polio syndrome(Good Health) should have included the fact that...
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Polio Survivors' Later Challenge; Incurable Weakness, Pain Rearrange Life

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 28, 2007

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Polio Survivors Later Challenge...THE WASHINGTON TIMES Post-polio syndrome, or PPS, is a stealthy...say. Only past victims of poliomyelitis are at risk. Hence, because...there is no cure. Overcoming polio paralysis usually involves...
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Polio Epidemic Lurks in Four Nations; Nigeria, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan Targeted for Eradication Measures

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 16, 2006

Subjects:

Immunization, Poliomyelitis, Virus diseases--Control

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Polio Epidemic Lurks in Four Nations; Nigeria...alists are warning about a serious risk of a polio resurgence unless the four remaining endemic...upwards of a quarter-million new cases of polio every single year if we do not finish the...
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Polio Survivor

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 21, 2011

Subjects:

Poliomyelitis, Rotary International, Virus diseases

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Polio Survivor. Byline: Lauren Fox The Register...of hundreds ready to speak publicly about polio for the first time at a Rotary district convention...cant forgot his harrowing battle against polio. "The iron lung saved some people, but...

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Poliomyelitis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

POLIOMYELITIS po leomi li tis, polio, or infantile paralysis...immunologic types of poliomyelitis virus; exposure to...who have had severe polio experience postpolio...The incidence of poliomyelitis declined radically...
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Polio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

POLIO see poliomyelitis . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Vaccination

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Disease Control and Prevention reported only one case of poliomyelitis, one of diphtheria, 34 of tetanus, and 89 of measles...older children, Tdap; Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib); poliomyelitis (IPV); pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia...
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Campobello Island, N.B., Roosevelt was stricken with poliomyelitis. He was paralyzed from the waist down, but by unremitting...later established a foundation to help other victims of poliomyelitis. Encouraged by his wife and others, he had retained his...
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Virus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to cause tumors in animals. Other viruses that infect humans cause measles , mumps , smallpox , yellow fever , rabies , poliomyelitis , influenza , and the common cold . The techniques of molecular biology and genetic engineering have made possible the development...

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