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post-polio syndrome
post-polio syndrome (pohst-poh-li-oh) n. insidious numbness in muscles, together with fatigue and pain, that develops 15–20 years after an attack of poliomyelitis. It may be caused by loss of nerve cells that have been under greater strain than normal; there is no evidence of reactivation of the poliovirus.
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Polio: managing its late effects in the nursing home; Are you capturing the rehabilitative minutes you earn for post-polio syndrome?(featurearticle)
Magazine article from: Nursing Homes; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; For most Americans today, polio is a vaccine, not a crippling disease...approximately 50,000 Americans contracted polio, with 12% dying. (1) Today an estimated 1.6 million Americans have survived polio's acute infectious stage with disabilities...
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Polio: The end is near Worldwide, only 537 cases last year--by 2005 eradication likely
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Fifty years after Salk first tested his polio vaccine, the disease is on the verge of being...recently announced there were only 537 new polio cases last year, the lowest number in history. Polio could be eliminated by the end of this year...
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POLIO STALKS INDIA'S NORTHERN FATEHPUR DISTRICT. (TAPE NO: 09/14845).
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 9/22/2009; 700+ words
; ...SOURCE: ANI TV AND WEB RESTRICTIONS: NONE Polio stalks India's northern Fatehpur district...government's efforts to make India a polio-free nation, India's northern Fatehpur district records quite a number of polio cases. SHOWS: FATEHPUR, UTTAR PRADESH...
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Polio will not be eradicated by the end of the year, health officials say.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 9/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...not meet their goal of eradicating the polio virus everywhere on Earth by the end of...pointed to a steep decline in reported polio cases over the past decade, said they...months and be able to declare the world polio-free by 2005. The three-year lag time...
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Polio Eradication Partners hold Global Summit at Headquarters, renew pledge to make world polio-free by 2005; Secretary-General praises public-private partnership; Calls for greater commitment in `Race to Reach the Last Child`.
M2 Presswire; 9/28/2000; 700+ words
; ...M2 PRESSWIRE-28 September 2000-UN: Polio Eradication Partners hold Global Summit at Headquarters, renew pledge to make world polio-free by 2005; Secretary-General praises...M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27092000 Polio Eradication Partners renewed their pledge...
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 "Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)")
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Polio survivors face new pain in later years.
Newspaper article from: Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN); 7/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...time she spent bedridden and paralyzed by polio. The Signal Mountain resident, who was...muscle weakness that characterize post-polio syndrome hit, and Ms. Watson had to give...teacher. Some of the estimated 1 million polio survivors living in the U.S. are experiencing...
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Polio: death of a disease.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/4/1999; 700+ words
; Polio, a crippling disease that disabled scores...United States by childhood vaccination, polio continues to strike the youth in remote areas...vaccination campaigns. With fewer than 6,000 polio cases worldwide _ roughly half in India...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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POLIO'S AFTERSHOCK: SYMPTOMS RETURNING.(Living Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/18/1986; 700+ words
; ...40 generation to imagine the dread that polio once inspired in American families. Hardly...of public health's banner successes, polio was all but wiped out in the United States...became available six years later. Though polio remains a scourge in Third World countries...
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Polio's past returning with vengeance Polio's pull from the past
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION Polio survivor Ed Bollenbach poses for a portrait...active until he felt the effects of post-polio syndrome. Now he uses a scooter to get...thought he had had his final encounter with polio in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1954, when the...
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 "The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan)")
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Polio virus in Lahore.
Newspaper article from: The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan); 8/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...NATION): Perhaps for the first time, a polio case has been detected in the provincial...positive in the clinical reports of Islamabad Polio Detection Laboratory. The stool sample...management after the doctors diagnosed some polio symptoms during the hospital investigations...
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Polio
Book article from: American Decades
POLIO Fear of Polio During the early 1950s no disease attracted as much attention as polio. A Gallup poll conducted in 1954 when the Salk vaccine was being tested indicated that more people knew about the polio vaccine tests than knew the name...
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Poliomyelitis and Polio
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
Poliomyelitis and polio Poliomyelitis is a contagious infectious disease that is...about 2% of those who contract the disease, which is called polio. Most people who contract polio either have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Poliomyelitis...
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Post-polio Syndrome
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Post-polio syndrome Definition Post-polio syndrome is a slowly progressing weakness that affects polio survivors decades after their initial bout with the disease. Description In order to understand post-polio syndrome, it's important...
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Polio Vaccine
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
Polio vaccine Definition The poliomyelitis (polio ) vaccine protects against poliovirus infections. The vaccine...substances) that will prevent an individual from contracting polio. There are two forms of the vaccine that can be given; the...
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The Polio Sugar Cube
Book article from: American Decades
THE POLIO SUGAR CUBE Is It Safe? In 1960 a medical debate raged over the polio vaccine. In 1954 Dr. Jonas Salk had produced a killed...weakened, virus might gain the strength to cause polio once it was introduced into the human body. Physicians...
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