noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the AIDS/flu/polio etc virus
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They are trying to stop the spread of the flu virus.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
live
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Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.
■ NOUN
case
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The vaccine brought a drastic drop-80 percent-in paralytic polio cases by 1957.
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Maine, with a population of one million, had 463 polio cases and only 10 deaths.
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Between 1948 and 1955 there were more polio cases than in the previous thirty years.
epidemic
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His interest in polio is said to have originated during the polio epidemic in New York City in 1931.
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If flies could be eliminated, then perhaps so could polio epidemics .
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What the experimenters did not account for in their preparations was the hysteria that surrounded polio epidemics .
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The result: a temporary reduction of flies, but no halt in the polio epidemic .
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In polio epidemics , rewards and punishments were dispensed with a random, devastating hand.
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Often the first separation was literal, through hospital isolation and quarantine, practices firmly established during the 1916 polio epidemic .
patient
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One hundred more polio patients soon followed.
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A teen club used the money from its treasury to take a teen polio patient to a movie.
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For polio patients , however, something more than inactivity was involved in the loss of calcium.
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Like others beset by misfortune, polio patients found solace in comparing themselves to others.
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Care for polio patients was costly.
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On staff were nurses and doctors with special training in the care of polio patients .
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All that attention to bladders and bowels, however necessary, only added to the lack of privacy for paralyzed polio patients .
vaccine
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Like all good conspiracy theories, the polio vaccine theory's originators are its worst enemies.
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Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.
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Human Aids dates from the same years during which live polio vaccines were tested.
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What had happened in medicine since the polio vaccine ?
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It accounted for a third of all oral polio vaccine administered.
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In a few minutes I will report on a new polio vaccine announced as a polio cure.
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First, chimpanzee kidney tissues will prove to have been used to grow Chat polio vaccine .
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Cutter Laboratories announced a special program to provide polio vaccine to all its workers and stockholders.
victim
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The conscious, alert patient, such as the polio victim , must be given treatment for as long as he desires.
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A former polio victim walked across the state of Idaho to collect pledges.
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She was a polio victim and only four feet nine inches tall, with curvature of the spine.
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Some families of polio victims mounted twenty-four-hour bedside vigils.
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Given the 163 extensive publicity, few could fail to be moved by the plight of polio victims .
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Writing about her friend Bea Wright, biographer Eleanor Chappell voiced the spirit expected of polio victims .
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Hospitals equipped to care for polio victims sometimes employed engineers around the clock to keep the respirators operating.
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In 1924 a friend told him that another polio victim had received helpful therapy from warm mineral water in the South.
virus
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At one time, and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines.
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First, how many types of polio virus existed?
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The polio virus first invades the intestines, where it lives, replicates, and usually establishes harmless infection.
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So, a polio vaccine tricks our body into making antibodies to the polio virus .
■ VERB
come
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With the vaccine approved and becoming more widely available, the unvaccinated continued to come down with polio .
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Had anyone else in the Mott family come down with polio as a result?
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Some camps closed because children came down with polio .
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When a hospital worker came down with polio , the whole staff was inoculated.
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But the dream came to an abrupt end when Peter Mott came down with polio .
contract
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Doctors told her she'd contracted polio from her son.
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When she contracted polio , which paralyzed her left leg, she was told she would never walk again.
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Read in studio A pressure group's calling for a compensation scheme for people who contract polio from vaccinations.
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My grandmother was fifty-two when Virginia contracted polio .
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The following year he contracted polio .
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In the early forties researchers reasserted an earlier observation that children who had had recent tonsillectomies were prone to contracting polio .
get
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As the years went on and no better idea about how one got polio was advanced, the theory took on importance.
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Still, children-and adults-\#got polio .
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When I got polio , it was in the mid-1940s, ten years before the first polio vaccine began to be used.
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She may have elbowed in ahead of other deserving souls, but then neither of her children got polio .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the close of 1955 polio began to decline.
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Do they think it could be polio ?
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For polio patients, however, something more than inactivity was involved in the loss of calcium.
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He maintained this gift even after he had been disabled by the recurrence of teenage polio .
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If there was any pain, polio was suspected.
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The following year he contracted polio .
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The implicit threat of disease curtailed summer pleasures for the children of the polio years.
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With the vaccine approved and becoming more widely available, the unvaccinated continued to come down with polio .