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This is the gripping story of the 1950s polio epidemic that terrified America and how it was conquered in a bitter competition between two brilliant scientists.

Poliomyelitis --- Anterior spinal paralysis --- Infantile paralysis --- Paralysis, Anterior spinal --- Paralysis, Infantile --- Polio --- Central nervous system --- Enterovirus diseases --- Myelitis --- History --- Infections

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This monograph reviews information published since 1997 on the group B coxsackieviruses (CVB), a large and important group of human enteroviruses. The CVB were discovered in the mid-20th century, during the search for other poliovirus types, and within a very few years of this discovery, the CVB had been implicated as causes of human myocarditis and pancreatitis. The study of the CVB is still inextricably linked with the fate of their well-known relatives, the polioviruses, for as poliovirus eradication proceeds around the world, the CVB emerge more prominently as the enteroviruses best suited for continuing studies in enteroviral molecular biology as well as understanding the mechanisms underlying enteroviral pathogenesis. This volume reviews and presents modern views on the spectrum of CVB biologies, from interaction of the virus with its receptor through replication, speciation, and induction of disease.

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In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.

Poliomyelitis --- People with disabilities in motion pictures. --- Culture in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Handicapped in motion pictures --- Anterior spinal paralysis --- Infantile paralysis --- Paralysis, Anterior spinal --- Paralysis, Infantile --- Polio --- Central nervous system --- Enterovirus diseases --- Myelitis --- Social aspects --- Patients --- Infections

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S. TRACY Late in the 1940s, a virus was isolated from a young patient with a flaccid par­ alysis in the sleepy Hudson River town of Coxsackie in the state of New York. Within the next few years, it was apparent that this and other similar viruses were not polioviruses but were indeed a new group of viruses, viruses that by the mid- 1950s had been found to be commonly associated with pediatric inflammatory heart disease. Two groups of coxsackieviruses (A and B) were differentiated on the basis of the type of paralysis induced in suckling mice by these viruses. Group B coxsackieviruses, because of their primacy as etiologic agents of human acute viral myocarditis and its relatively common sequela, dilated cardiomyopathy, are the focus of this volume. of the century approaches, the massive international effort to eradi­ As the end cate polioviruses through vaccination as causes of human disease has been success­ ful in the Western Hemisphere and in many parts of Europe, and it is expected that worldwide eradication may be achieved within the near future. While this is wonderful news, there are sadly no similar efforts being planned to combat the numerous other human enteroviruses that daily incur widespread morbidity and mortality throughout the world. While this is due in part to the lack of specific know­ ledge about the other human enteroviruses, it is also due to the perceptions of industry that there is insufficient profit to be made by developing these vaccines.

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The Vital Drop: Communication for Polio Eradication in India explains why. communication is critical in ensuring the success of public health initiatives. Since a significant outbreak of polio in the country in 2002, several innovative. strategies were introduced to ensure better outreach and efficacy of the intensified. pulse polio initiative. This book records the communication journey that began. in 2002 through important innovations aimed at including segregated and marginalised. populations, as well as a very successful mass media campaign featuring cine star. Amitabh Bachchan. An importa

Poliomyelitis --- Mass media in health education --- Communication in medicine --- Health education --- Health --- Hygiene --- Education --- Health promotion --- Preventive health services --- Health communication --- Medical communication --- Medicine --- Anterior spinal paralysis --- Infantile paralysis --- Paralysis, Anterior spinal --- Paralysis, Infantile --- Polio --- Central nervous system --- Enterovirus diseases --- Myelitis --- Prevention. --- Study and teaching --- Infections