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Post-this disease syndrome affects many survivors, of which the U.S. is estimated to have 300,000, the vast majority over 65 polio FJ MEDICINE 2022-05-23 #8646
An effort lasting from 1985 to 1991 eliminated this paralytic illness from Latin America polio $400 J PUBLIC HEALTH 2005-12-21 #4898
Elizabeth Kenny was the first to treat this paralytic disease with moist heat & physical therapy polio $300 J MEDICINE 1996-12-19 #2834
Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny was famous for her methods in treating this often paralyzing disease polio $600 DJ HEALTH & MEDICINE 1995-12-18 #2601
The Salk & Sabin vaccines have been so successful that this disease has been eradicated in the Americas polio $200 DJ SICKNESS & HEALTH 1995-10-24 #2562
About 85% of children infected with this disease, once called infantile paralysis, have no symptoms polio $800 DJ SICKNESS & HEALTH 1994-04-27 #2233
Though the Salk vaccine can help prevent this disease, no drug has been found that will cure it polio $400 DJ MEDICINE 1989-05-12 #1095
Because it was once thought only children caught it, this disease was also called "infantile paralysis" polio $200 DJ MEDICINE 1987-05-06 #628
In the '40s, Sister Kenny, an Australian nurse, brought her treatment for this disease to the U.S. polio $1,000 DJ SICKNESS & HEALTH 1986-05-14 #438
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