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"Polio" in a Sentence (12 examples)
She was vaccinated against polio.
He was struck with polio when he was five.
Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1952.
The polio vaccine was first produced by an American scientist.
It is important to immunize children against polio.
The global effort to end polio has been going on for more than 30 years.
Nigeria has not had a case of wild polio since 2016.
In the 31 years since the launch of this global effort, the number of polio cases has dropped by 99.9%. Instead of hundreds of thousands of children being paralyzed each year, the number stood at 65 as of August 20.
Over the years, the WHO has helped eradicate smallpox, reduced polio cases by 99% and been on the front lines of the battle against such outbreaks as Ebola.
In 1996, South African President Nelson Mandela, with the support of service organization Rotary International, jumpstarted Africa’s commitment to polio eradication with the launch of the Kick Polio Out of Africa campaign.
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They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will.
The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, involved healing sorely wounded spirits.
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