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Meanings of polio in English
Portuguese
poliomielite Catalan
poliomielitis 
An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord.
Usage of polio in English
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Health authorities were now targeting children born since last year's polio vaccinations.
2
South Sudan was supposed to be declared free of polio, he said.
3
Dr Oakley said environmental surveillance was quite common for viruses like polio.
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Health experts fear a resurgence of polio in parts of the world.
5
Aim to eradicate wild polio, clear the way for the vaccine-derived kind.
6
You can choose between clean water, rain forest preservation, or polio vaccines.
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Within 17 years, the Salk vaccine was developed, and polio was defeated.
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Lyse Doucet reports now from one of the polio clinics in Damascus.
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Naeemjan Barki was devastated when his young son was diagnosed with polio.
10
A child from Papua New Guinea's Enga Province has died from polio.
11
The polio left him in a wheelchair and lucky to be alive.
12
They walked like polio victims with steel braces, like awkwardly handled marionettes.
13
That I had been emotionally scarred by my dad's struggle with polio?
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There is no cure but the polio vaccine protects children for life.
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A victim of polio, he spent his entire presidency in a wheelchair.
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They are the marks of my vaccinations against smallpox, polio and tuberculosis.
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Polio across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
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