(1) An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
(1) The first symptoms of polio are fever, sore throat, headache and a stiff neck.
(2) His medical training at Cambridge University was interrupted by polio .
(3) Sandy spent his younger years in India where he suffered from polio .
(4) Some symptoms are like polio , so it was originally thought to be due to a virus.
(5) Even in 1958, when she had had polio , she felt it was something of a curiosity and a disease doctors knew little about.
(6) Diseases that we in the West think are gone, like small pox and polio are still rampant in this country.
(7) It was there, in 1954, that she contracted polio from a patient, becoming the last person in Oxford to get it.
(8) In India I have grown used to giving lectures on polio and other topics with only a moment's notice and without slides.
(9) She has polio
(10) Beyond polio and guinea worm, the current list of potentially eradicable human pathogens is quite short.
(11) It was the first confirmed case of polio , which mainly affects children under the age of five, in the country for three years.
(12) There now seems a real prospect that, like smallpox, polio may be eradicated entirely from the world.
(13) He has also been preparing by becoming inoculated against rabies, polio and typhoid.
(14) There are few medicines used to treat diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and polio that have patents on them now.
(15) Unless polio is eliminated in India and Nigeria, global eradication cannot be achieved.
(16) Precautions should be taken against cholera, hepatitis, typhoid and polio throughout the region.
(17) She suffered polio , double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which rendered her left leg useless.
(18) People who have abortive polio or nonparalytic polio usually make a full recovery.
(19) Mr Baker blames the polio for his appetite for tough challenges.
(20) The tactical application of immunization is the only way to eradicate polio .
infantile paralysis
poliomyelitis