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  2. Cases of Paralyzing, Polio-Like Illness in Children Now Up to ...

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    Cases of Paralyzing, Polio-Like Illness in Children Now Up to 62. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail ...

  3. Francis Ford Coppola, who survived polio, has harsh words for ...

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    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a fellow polio survivor, issued a statement Friday following reports that a top Kennedy ally, Aaron Siri, had targeted the use of the vaccine for children ...

  4. List of polio survivors - Wikipedia

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    Author whose work includes essays and memoirs on the subject of disability. He caught polio, aged eleven, which left him without the use of his legs. [69] Peter Levi: 1931–2000 After battling polio as a teenager, [70] Levi went on to become—among other things—a professor of poetry at Oxford, a Jesuit priest, and the author of over 40 books.

  5. March of Dimes - Wikipedia

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    March of Dimes is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies. [1] The organization was founded by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, to combat polio.

  6. Virus that can cause polio-like paralysis in children on the ...

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    Non-polio enteroviruses, like EV-D68, cause about 10 to 15 million infections and tens of thousands of hospitalizations each year across the US. EV-D68 was first identified in California in the ...

  7. Childhood immunizations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since 1990, when the vaccine was introduced as a routine vaccination in children, rates of acute Hepatitis B has decreased in the United States by 82%. This vaccine is given as a series of shots, the first dose is given at birth, the second between 1 and 2 months, and the third, and possibly fourth, between 6 and 18 months.

  8. What to know about polio as it resurfaces

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    The virus infects the throat and intestines, and can cause flu-like symptoms. Paralysis from the polio virus is rare. This year, polio cases have been detected in New York state, London and Jerusalem.

  9. Cast bullet - Wikipedia

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    An open single-cavity bullet mold and a closed two-cavity mold. A cast bullet is made by allowing molten metal to solidify in a mold.Most cast bullets are made of lead alloyed with tin and antimony; but zinc alloys have been used when lead is scarce, and may be used again in response to concerns about lead toxicity.