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Polio eradication in Pakistan, 2006
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Hospital respiratory ward in Los Angeles, 1952
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Child with a
severely deformed leg due to polio
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Young man with a
withered leg due to polio
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Child with polio, Rhode Island polio epidemic,
1960
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Patient in iron lung, Rhode Island polio
epidemic, 1960
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Two children with polio receiving physical
therapy
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Images like this were used to encourage
polio vaccination
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Aerial view of a crowd awaiting polio
immunization, San Antonio, 1962
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Child with sequelae of polio. Quote
from Dr. Harry Hull
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Negative stain image of the polio virus
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Patients whose
respiratory muscles were affected were placed in an "iron lung" machine
to enable them to breathe
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This patient
sustained upper extremity paralysis due to the due to polio caused by the
poliovirus.
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Cheshire Home
for Handicapped Children, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Two children with polio, Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), Kisangani
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Cheshire Home for Handicapped Children,
Menagesha, 25 Km from Addis Ababa
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Children with polio, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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Polio has taken a visible toll in countries
like Sierra Leone.
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This child is one of a set of twins, both
paralysed by polio. Community in the Sibiti forest, Congo.
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Young woman with polio
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Boys with polio
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The wild poliovirus usually paralyses
children under five years old.
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Boy with polio, Menagesha, at the Cheshire
Home for Handicapped Children
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Boy with paralysis from polio infection
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Orphan girl with polio, Kenya
Photographer: James Li, MD
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Boy with polio and handmade braces, Kenya
Photographer: James Li, MD
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"Photo Essay: The End of
Polio by Sebastião Salgado"
Available for viewing on PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers web page
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