A victim of poliomyelitis, he was joined by fellow wheelchair-bound musicians and street youth.
FOR a symptom of Pakistan's problems, consider the spread of poliomyelitis.
Such are the vaccines for yellow fever, poliomyelitis (oral vaccine), measles, rubella, and tuberculosis.
Like vaccination against typhoid (and against poliomyelitis later), tuberculosis immunization evoked widespread contention.
About 1945 the first relatively effective vaccine was produced for influenza; in 1954 the American physician Jonas E. Salk introduced a vaccine for poliomyelitis; and in 1960 an oral poliomyelitis vaccine, developed by the virologist Albert B. Sabin, came into wide use.
In August 1921, while on vacation at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada, Roosevelt's life was transformed when he was stricken with poliomyelitis.
Examples include carpal tunnel syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, poliomyelitis, and shingles.
Poliomyelitis means "gray marrow inflammation," referring to the propensity of the poliovirus to attack certain cells in the spinal cord and brainstem.
In 1935 tobacco mosaic virus became the first virus to be crystallized; in 1955 the poliomyelitis virus was crystallized.
He studied poliomyelitis and trachoma and worked on a vaccine and serum for yellow fever.
Compulsory vaccination against smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and poliomyelitis is enforced for all infants during their first two years.
