Word: polio
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Yayat is hopeful. She tickles the boy's foot to show it still has feeling, but the foot hangs limp. It may never move again. Just last week polio was officially diagnosed in Fikri, the first Indonesian child to test positive for the virus in 10 years. Three other cases have been confirmed in the area, and hundreds of other children--some suspiciously sick already--are being examined. "The virus has probably been circulating for a month," says Dr. Georg Petersen, an on-site representative of the World Health Organization (WHO). "We can expect more cases...
...sickly village of Cidadap is not alone in its woes. Even as Americans celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Salk vaccine--the magic bullet that all but wiped out polio in the U.S.--the disease is on the march around the world. Since 2003 polio has been spreading in a fevered band across 16 countries mostly in western and central Africa and the Middle East. And with the news last week that the virus had leaped the Indian Ocean to Indonesia, other nations, including the U.S., have begun to worry about where the disease might turn up next...
What's behind the re-emergence of polio? More important, can the new outbreaks be contained and others prevented, or is the disease truly on the loose again...
...film focuses on F.D.R.'s crippling battle with polio. Are those your real calves? No. It's prosthetics and computers. Oh, thank God. Sweetly put, though. I'm blessed or cursed with rugby-player legs...
...upon the Earth. In 1940, when Wilfrid was nine, the call took the family to the U.S. and kept them hopping from way station to way station. Young Wilfrid, the eternal transfer student, felt like a newspaper tossed on a lawn. Not even when he was struck by polio at the age of 1 3 did his parents slow down their perpetual motion in the service of the Lord...