Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons still unknown, pregnant women are especially resistant to the scourge of polio...
...determined how the disease spreads; it is as likely to strike on Park Avenue as in Hell's Kitchen, hits harder in suburbs than in cities. There is no proof that polio is spread by flies, drinking water, milk, swimming in infected waters...
Tracking a Cure. Medical scientists think they have turned up some promising leads for polio cure. One of them: a vaccine made of polio virus inactivated by ultraviolet rays; it has been successful in immunizing laboratory mice, but is still to be tested on monkeys and human beings...
...despite physical therapy, some 15-to-20% of polio victims still suffer permanent paralysis. About...
From all the research, one clear, conclusive finding has emerged: laboratory animals or human beings are most susceptible to polio after 1) exhausting exercise, 2) a plunge into cold water in hot weather, 3) a tonsillectomy...