Polio

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Immunisation for Everyone – The Polio Experience

1 September 1979

In the richer nations of Europe and North America the gaining of control over the common infectious illnesses was a long, gradual process. It was initiated…

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Residue of Poliomyelitis

7 January 1965

One of the consequences of ill health which can have the profoundest social and economic effect is a legacy of chronic and permanent disability. It may…

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Price of Poliomyelitis

1 August 1963

The risk of permanent paralysis is the predominant feature of poliomyelitis, and the dread of disability has profoundly affected society’s attitude to the disease. In the…