Word: polio
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Though the disease fighters were hampered by the public's unconcern, they were helped by some characteristics of the measles virus. There is only one type, as against three for polio. One shot of vaccine made from live but attenuated virus confers lifelong immunity. And the wild virus has no reservoir, like that of rabies in animals or polio in sewage. It lives only in man. Wipe it out in man, and it is wiped out, period-except for sporadic outbreaks among unvaccinated children, caused by virus imported by a traveler...
Swann is a bespectacled cricket on a piano bench. He and his piano both chirp. Flanders, confined to a wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks...
After hearing Dr. Jackson's report, the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin, developer of oral polio vaccine, declared: "There is great concern about the large-scale use of this drug because its margin of safety is very, very narrow...
...primary. This year Peabody won the Democratic nomination after a bruising battle with Boston's two-term mayor, John Collins, 47, an icy pragmatist whose political strength is based largely in the city, where he has mounted a brilliant if bloodless attack on urban renewal problems. Collins, a polio victim who is usually confined to a wheelchair, relied extensively on well-delivered television oratory and made an attempt to attract white-backlash votes by pointedly rejecting "civil disobedience as a means of attaining democratic objectives." Chub Peabody tirelessly stumped the state, chopping away at Collins' "public-be-damned...
...Nothing Shameful." A year and a half after Lucy's marriage, F.D.R. was stricken with polio. Writes Daniels: "However complete or incomplete had been the reconciliation between Eleanor and Franklin after their marriage was threatened, now he was hers to serve and to save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration...