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Polio is a viral disease that can damage nerves and cause paralysis, now largely prevented by vaccines.
means An infectious viral disease that can attack the nervous system and cause paralysis, largely tamed worldwide by vaccination.
from Short for 'poliomyelitis,' built from Greek 'polios' (grey) and 'myelos' (marrow, referring to the spinal cord's grey matter), plus '-itis' for inflammation — a 19th-century medical coinage naming the disease by exactly where it strikes.
- spread via
- fecal-oral route, not coughing
- iron lungs
- machines that breathed for paralyzed patients
- vaccine rivalry
- salk and sabin raced with different approaches
- near eradication
- cases dropped over 99 percent since 1988