Sentence examples for attack of polio from inspiring English sources

In 1962 he suffered a severe attack of polio.

His singing career ended with an attack of polio, and he became drawn to jazz after hearing Charlie Parker in Omaha in 1951.

The problem is that since an attack of polio at the age of six he's been confined to an iron lung except for four hours a day when he can be wheeled around, stretched out on a gurney.

Unable to enlist for military service in World War II because of an attack of polio, Mr. Luce became a staff lawyer for the Board of Economic Warfare in Washington.

Latin American actress Salma Hayek is to play the feminist painter, who was forced to do much of her work from her bed due to a childhood attack of polio and a severe accident at the age of 18 when her stomach and pelvis were pierced by a pole.

At the other end of the scale, there was BS Chandrasekhar, an Indian leg spinner from the 1960s and 70s whose right arm had been withered by a childhood attack of polio but who was still really good.  .

"Completely condemn the attack on polio teams," Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, a good-will ambassador for polio eradication and the daughter of President Asif Ali Zardari, said in a message on Twitter.

It was the second attack on polio workers in the district.

Since the first attack on polio workers there have been repeated attacks on polio workers across the country.

Statement: UNICEF responds to the attack on polio social mobilizers in Kandahar UNICEF expresses deep sorrow at the attack on two women who were working as social mobilizers to support polio eradication in the city of Kandahar.

(In response to a wave of deadly attacks on polio workers in the region, the American government said yesterday that the CIA has ended the use of vaccine programmes in its spying operations).