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  • Their leader was Maulana Fazlullah, a 28-year-old who used to operate the pulley chair to cross the Swat River and whose right leg dragged because of childhood polio.†  (source)
  • It began with the betrayal of his flesh: Thirty years after a bout with polio, the symptoms mysteriously flared anew.†  (source)
  • The laser, the transistor, the polio vaccine, the microchip, the hologram, the personal computer, magnetic resonance imaging, CAT scans—the list goes on and on.†  (source)
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  • When I was your age, I lived in bed, racked with polio.†  (source)
    polio = viral disease that causes muscle paralysis
  • 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 had four sons, and when the youngest was about twelve, he came down with that polio thing.†  (source)
  • No. Have you had any recent viral infection, including poliomyelitis, hepatitis, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, varicella, or herpes?†  (source)
  • Sir Leigh Teabing had suffered from polio as a child and now wore leg braces and walked with crutches, but Langdon had found him such a lively and colorful man on his last visit that it hardly seemed an infirmity.†  (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)
  • Polio vaccine.†  (source)
  • He had polio.†  (source)
  • No, instead of laughing, I started blubbering into the phone, crying like a kid getting a polio shot.†  (source)
  • When the school sent a notice home about a polio vaccination, I told her the time and place, and added that all students were now required to use metal lunch boxes, since they had discovered old paper bags can carry polio germs.†  (source)
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