POLIO


Meaning of POLIO in English

noun

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the AIDS/flu/polio etc virus

They are trying to stop the spread of the flu virus.

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■ ADJECTIVE

live

Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.

■ NOUN

case

The vaccine brought a drastic drop-80 percent-in paralytic polio cases by 1957.

Maine, with a population of one million, had 463 polio cases and only 10 deaths.

Between 1948 and 1955 there were more polio cases than in the previous thirty years.

epidemic

His interest in polio is said to have originated during the polio epidemic in New York City in 1931.

If flies could be eliminated, then perhaps so could polio epidemics .

What the experimenters did not account for in their preparations was the hysteria that surrounded polio epidemics .

The result: a temporary reduction of flies, but no halt in the polio epidemic .

In polio epidemics , rewards and punishments were dispensed with a random, devastating hand.

Often the first separation was literal, through hospital isolation and quarantine, practices firmly established during the 1916 polio epidemic .

patient

One hundred more polio patients soon followed.

A teen club used the money from its treasury to take a teen polio patient to a movie.

For polio patients , however, something more than inactivity was involved in the loss of calcium.

Like others beset by misfortune, polio patients found solace in comparing themselves to others.

Care for polio patients was costly.

On staff were nurses and doctors with special training in the care of polio patients .

All that attention to bladders and bowels, however necessary, only added to the lack of privacy for paralyzed polio patients .

vaccine

Like all good conspiracy theories, the polio vaccine theory's originators are its worst enemies.

Two different live polio vaccines tested then infected children with the disease rather than protected them; some died.

Human Aids dates from the same years during which live polio vaccines were tested.

What had happened in medicine since the polio vaccine ?

It accounted for a third of all oral polio vaccine administered.

In a few minutes I will report on a new polio vaccine announced as a polio cure.

First, chimpanzee kidney tissues will prove to have been used to grow Chat polio vaccine .

Cutter Laboratories announced a special program to provide polio vaccine to all its workers and stockholders.

victim

The conscious, alert patient, such as the polio victim , must be given treatment for as long as he desires.

A former polio victim walked across the state of Idaho to collect pledges.

She was a polio victim and only four feet nine inches tall, with curvature of the spine.

Some families of polio victims mounted twenty-four-hour bedside vigils.

Given the 163 extensive publicity, few could fail to be moved by the plight of polio victims .

Writing about her friend Bea Wright, biographer Eleanor Chappell voiced the spirit expected of polio victims .

Hospitals equipped to care for polio victims sometimes employed engineers around the clock to keep the respirators operating.

In 1924 a friend told him that another polio victim had received helpful therapy from warm mineral water in the South.

virus

At one time, and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines.

First, how many types of polio virus existed?

The polio virus first invades the intestines, where it lives, replicates, and usually establishes harmless infection.

So, a polio vaccine tricks our body into making antibodies to the polio virus .

■ VERB

come

With the vaccine approved and becoming more widely available, the unvaccinated continued to come down with polio .

Had anyone else in the Mott family come down with polio as a result?

Some camps closed because children came down with polio .

When a hospital worker came down with polio , the whole staff was inoculated.

But the dream came to an abrupt end when Peter Mott came down with polio .

contract

Doctors told her she'd contracted polio from her son.

When she contracted polio , which paralyzed her left leg, she was told she would never walk again.

Read in studio A pressure group's calling for a compensation scheme for people who contract polio from vaccinations.

My grandmother was fifty-two when Virginia contracted polio .

The following year he contracted polio .

In the early forties researchers reasserted an earlier observation that children who had had recent tonsillectomies were prone to contracting polio .

get

As the years went on and no better idea about how one got polio was advanced, the theory took on importance.

Still, children-and adults-\#got polio .

When I got polio , it was in the mid-1940s, ten years before the first polio vaccine began to be used.

She may have elbowed in ahead of other deserving souls, but then neither of her children got polio .

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By the close of 1955 polio began to decline.

Do they think it could be polio ?

For polio patients, however, something more than inactivity was involved in the loss of calcium.

He maintained this gift even after he had been disabled by the recurrence of teenage polio .

If there was any pain, polio was suspected.

The following year he contracted polio .

The implicit threat of disease curtailed summer pleasures for the children of the polio years.

With the vaccine approved and becoming more widely available, the unvaccinated continued to come down with polio .

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