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  • In junior high school, Flom took the entrance exam for the elite Townsend Harris public high school on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, a school that in just forty years of existence produced three Nobel Prize winners, six Pulitzer Prize winners, and one Supreme Court Justice, not to mention George Gershwin and Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine.†   (source)
  • But they don't never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.†   (source)
  • This can so weaken the animal that it can develop a long list of other diseases like diarrhea, ulcers, liver disease, pneumonia, and feedlot polio.†   (source)
  • Dark hair, high cheekbones, but she had polio.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I play chess with one of my colleagues, an anchorite like myself, who suffers from post-polio syndrome.†   (source)
  • For a while in the middle of the twentieth century, it looked like polio would be the disease of the century.†   (source)
  • Sherman's left leg was shriveled and weak, the result of polio.†   (source)
  • Polio, maybe.†   (source)
  • This is the gender that invented the polio vaccine?†   (source)
  • Saeed in particular was touched by a native boy, just out of school, or perhaps in his final year, who came to their house and administered polio drops, to the children but also to the adults, and while many were suspicious of vaccinations, and many more, including Saeed and Nadia, had already been vaccinated, there was such earnestness in the boy, such empathy and good intent, that though some argued, none had the heart to refuse him.†   (source)
  • Salad of tomatoes and pimientos with hibiscus garnish Polio a la criolla (lots of tomato paste in my San Valentin version) Moors and Christians rice—heavy on the beans for the red-brown color Carrots — I'm going to shape the rings into little hearts Arroz con leche —because you know how the song goes.†   (source)
  • "Alors, well, Tourteau's legs were deformed from the polio.†   (source)
  • A hundred million crystallized polio viruses could cover the period at the end of this sentence.†   (source)
  • The constant worry about polio—that, in its own strange way, was love.†   (source)
  • So perhaps, you say hopefully, discrimination was practically eradicated during the twentieth century, like polio.†   (source)
  • Or you were the Polio Mother of the Year 1952 or the subject of a brief improvised bit, which he now performed, on the flashing light in airliner toilets, a recent obsession of his.†   (source)
  • Sher Takhi had polio as a child, and he walked with a limp, so it must have been agony for him.†   (source)
  • He favored it, believed it was polio, and felt secretly connected to the late President Roosevelt for that reason.†   (source)
  • Magda had made a wonderful-smelling arroz con polio.†   (source)
  • Doc Daneeka would never go swimming again; a person could swoon or suffer a mild coronary occlusion in an inch or two of water and drown to death, be carried out to sea by an undertow, or made vulnerable to poliomyelitis or meningococcus infection through chilling or over-exertion.†   (source)
  • He could of made it so that it was always summer, and there's always apples in the trees, and the water at the Blue Lake is always clean and warm for swimming—instead He made it so that some of us get polio when we go swimming and we're crippled for life!†   (source)
  • A vaccine for polio had been developed, though it had yet to make its way to Africa.†   (source)
  • What he did was, Richard Kinsella, he'd start telling you all about that stuff—then all of a sudden he'd start telling you about this letter his mother got from his uncle, and how his uncle got polio and all when he was forty-two years old, and how he wouldn't let anybody come to see him in the hospital because he didn't want anybody to see him with a brace on.†   (source)
  • What if I had polio?†   (source)
  • His mother cooks an curio? con polio and leaves the plantains warming in the oven for their dinner.†   (source)
  • This is a tank that somewhat resembles the iron lungs which, in more primitive decades, were used to sustain victims of polio.†   (source)
  • He had health problems from emphysema and a childhood bout with polio, but I had never anticipated him actually dying.†   (source)
  • He had polio as a small child, which caused him to develop a stuttering problem.†   (source)
  • JAN. 20—Mr. Ronald T. Stein was today named chairman of the Union County division of the Annual March of Dimes Polio Drive.†   (source)
  • Now, Colonel, when Mr. Jones was a young man he contracted polio of the face and had to wear a brace on his nose and upper lip for the first five years of his life.†   (source)
  • As a boy, he hiked the Cascade Mountains near his home in Washington to strengthen legs weakened by polio.†   (source)
  • I had polio," said Henry.†   (source)
  • Rickets and shingles were back, and perhaps polio was coming back, too.†   (source)
  • What had happened in medicine since the polio vaccine?†   (source)
  • He talked to some people about his new cure for polio, and my heart sort of died.†   (source)
  • Polio was around too, killing and crippling.†   (source)
  • I remember when we were all little, the year Ali got polio and almost died.   (source)
  • But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with little in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle.   (source)
  • And for some crazy reason, I became absolutely certain that it had been Ali's right leg—his twisted polio leg—that had finally betrayed him and stepped on that land mine.   (source)
  • Polio paralyzed and killed thousands of Americans a year before vaccination began in 1955.
  • What if his words had the effect of polio on me?†   (source)
  • Booby traps and land mines and gangrene and shock and polio from a VC virus.†   (source)
  • At first the Tuskegee Center supplied HeLa cells only to polio testing labs.†   (source)
  • Even when conquered, polio had a powerful grip on the imaginations of my parents' generation.†   (source)
  • By the end of 1951 the world was in the midst of the biggest polio epidemic in history.†   (source)
  • It was built for one reason: to help stop polio.†   (source)
  • "She used to take care of me when my polio got bad," he told me.†   (source)
  • The whole place looks like it caught polio, then killed Doctor Salk.†   (source)
  • You could get polio without knowing how or where, end up in an iron lung without knowing why.†   (source)
  • One of them had a partially withered leg: polio, I knew.†   (source)
  • We didn't have polio, and we don't have cerebral palsy.†   (source)
  • It killed the virus of polio, rabies, leukemia, and the common wart.†   (source)
  • Did you know Phyllis had polio when she was a girl?†   (source)
  • Kai Jing, who was a geologist, was actually a very good calligrapher, especially for someone whose right side had been weakened by polio when he was a child.†   (source)
  • She had that polio, you know, and used to drape a towel over her twisted left hand sometimes to hide it when she walked around.†   (source)
  • " She's smiling like she just discovered the cure for polio, the way she's worked out a plan to win Miss Hilly over.†   (source)
  • More clever still, Teabing had situated his electronic listening post in the one place a man with polio could not possibly reach.†   (source)
  • Morrie's brother, David—who still walked with a limp from his childhood polio lifted the shovel and tossed dirt in the grave, as per tradition.†   (source)
  • Her look was one of painful denial, reminding me of a time long ago when she took my brothers and me down to a clinic to get our polio booster shots.†   (source)
  • His men stopped health workers giving polio drops, saying the vaccinations were an American plot to make Muslim women infertile so that the people of Swat would die out.†   (source)
  • From medical journals he deduced that he was suffering from a newly identified ailment known as post-polio syndrome.†   (source)
  • Still, it pleased me that this pious baker, as plain as a shadow and of solid health, and the Communist biology teacher and science devotee, the walking mountain on stilts, sadly afflicted with polio in his childhood, carried the same name.†   (source)
  • Maybe polio.†   (source)
  • For some reason, though, that imagination did not become literary; polio rarely shows up in novels of the period.†   (source)
  • When his brother returned from the medical home, still wearing leg braces from the polio, the two of them shared a rollaway bed in the kitchen of their apartment, and Eva would kiss them good-night.†   (source)
  • Not polio.†   (source)
  • Not polio.†   (source)
  • The polio had left him partially paralyzed in his neck and arms, with nerve damage that caused constant pain.†   (source)
  • Yeah, but not polio.†   (source)
  • He eventually tracked some down in the lab of William Scherer, who'd used some of the original HeLa sample in their polio research.†   (source)
  • Others shipped them on a rigid schedule to researchers at twenty-three polio-testing centers around the country.†   (source)
  • His real name was Hector Henry—people started calling him Cootie when he got polio decades earlier; he was never sure why.†   (source)
  • From her cells came all these different creations—medical miracles like polio vaccines, some cure for cancer and other things, even AIDS.†   (source)
  • "I didn't know about that, but the other day President Clinton said the polio vaccine is one of the most important things that happened in the twentieth century, and her cells involved with that too."†   (source)
  • The article that identified "Henrietta Lakes" as the source of the HeLa cell line was "U Polio-detection Method to Aid in Prevention Plans," Minneapolis Star, November 2, 1953.†   (source)
  • Instead he told her about Henrietta's cells being used for the polio vaccine and genetic research; he said they'd gone up in early space missions and been used in atomic bomb testing.†   (source)
  • The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP)—a charity created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who'd himself been paralyzed by polio—began organizing the largest field trial ever conducted to test the polio vaccine.†   (source)
  • In February 1952, Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh announced that he'd developed the world's first polio vaccine, but he couldn't begin offering it to children until he'd tested it on a large scale to prove it was safe and effective.†   (source)
  • When the NFIP heard the news that HeLa was susceptible to polio virus and could grow in large quantities for little money, it immediately contracted William Scherer to oversee development of a HeLa Distribution Center at the Tuskegee Institute, one of the most prestigious black universities in the country.†   (source)
  • I've tried to imagine how she'd feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization.†   (source)
  • Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Shumacher; Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinski; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger; and The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Crisis in Vaccines, by Paul Offit.†   (source)
  • Details of the initial growth of poliovirus using HeLa cells, and the subsequent development of shipping methods, is documented in letters housed at the AMCMA and the March of Dimes Archives, as well as in J. Syverton, W. Scherer, and G. O. Gey, "Studies on the Propagation in Vitro of Poliomyelitis Virus," Journal of Experimental Medicine 97, no. 5 (May 1, 1953).†   (source)
  • Date of most recent polio vaccination?†   (source)
  • No. Have you had any recent viral infection, including poliomyelitis, hepatitis, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, varicella, or herpes?†   (source)
  • I've never seen an iron lung, but the newspapers had pictures of children in iron lungs, back when people still got polio.†   (source)
  • In the hot still summers, when polio was feared, Caroline had been made to stay inside, sweat beading on her temples as she stretched out on the daybed by the window in the upstairs hallway, reading.†   (source)
  • But they saw other things, too, better things: the end of two world wars, the polio vaccine, passage of the civil rights laws.†   (source)
  • Yes, it might be the era of the kidney transplant in America and a vaccine for polio due to arrive even in India, but here Hema felt she'd tricked time; with her twentieth-century knowledge she had traveled back to an earlier epoch.†   (source)
  • You might get polio from them.†   (source)
  • When my daughter died of polio, everybody stretched out a hand to help me, but at first I couldn't seem to bear the touch of anything, even the love of friends; no support seemed strong enough.†   (source)
  • "They had polio," Natalie explained.†   (source)
  • If the professor's field was limitless, requiring a breadth of knowledge that extended from heart failure to poliomyelitis and myriad conditions in between, she chose a field that had some boundaries and a mechanical component—operations.†   (source)
  • "Though polio cases have surged in recent years, we now see hope for a vaccine to prevent this dread disease," Mr. Stein said.†   (source)
  • Long committed to community service, Mr. Stein is a Member of the Board of the Watchung Hills Children's Home, which specializes in the care of polio patients.†   (source)
  • POLIO CHAIRMAN NAMED†   (source)
  • You think I have polio?†   (source)
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