Word: postpolio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polio survivors, it is particularly disheartening, years after recovering, to find that again they cannot climb stairs or even comb their ! hair. Until recently, doctors frequently thought that these postpolio victims were imagining their problems. But as more people began to experience the same crippling aftereffects, it became apparent that PPMA was a physical disorder common to approximately 15% to 20% of former polio patients...