polio
noun
Origin of polio
Examples from the Web for polio
Contemporary Examples of polio
Last year, a polio outbreak in Deir ez-Zor raised concerns throughout the region about the spread of an epidemic.
Then Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, made a bad batch of vaccine, and 40,000 children were sickened with polio.
Fifty-eight children took part in a trial into polio and diptheria vaccines in December 1960.
Irish Care Home Scandal Grows As Children Revealed To Be Used As Vaccine Guinea PigsTom Sykes
June 10, 2014
Either way, part of the tragedy and poignancy of polio is its preferential spread to babies and toddlers.
What about Ebola (in Africa), polio (in the Middle East), and measles (in the U.S./U.K)?
Historical Examples of polio
Perhaps the polio, light touch of it or not, had hurt her eyesight.
Moment of TruthBasil Eugene Wells
Nalúlid siya kay gitakbúyag pulyu, He was crippled after his bout with polio.
A Dictionary of Cebuano VisayanJohn U. Wolff
Nagtakihud siya tungud sa pulyu, He limps because he had polio.
A Dictionary of Cebuano VisayanJohn U. Wolff
Wood up thar, you Polio—hang on to the safety valve—guess she'll crawl off on her paddles.
The OctoroonDion Boucicault