| Author |
Seytre, Bernard,
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| Subject |
Poliomyelitis -- History.
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Poliomyelitis vaccine -- History.
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Poliomyelitis -- prevention & control.
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History, 20th Century.
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Vaccination -- history.
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| Alt Name |
Shaffer, Mary,
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| Description |
1 online resource (161 pages) |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The last victims -- A lifetime burden -- A virus with a long history -- The people versus polio -- Freed from the iron lung -- Coming along at the right time: Jonas Salk -- Behind the scenes -- The largest medical experiment in history -- The race for an oral vaccine -- Revolution in the production of vaccines -- Polio: programmed for defeat -- The end game -- The challenge of eradication. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Annotation In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a campaign for global eradication of polio. The goal is closer than ever as fewer than 2,000 people died from the disease in 2002, down from approximately 350,000 in 1988. In this book, the authors tell the story of this crippling virus that has struck down healthy children for centuries. |
| Note |
English. |
| ISBN |
081353786X (electronic bk.) |
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9780813537863 (electronic bk.) |
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128213440X |
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9781282134409 |
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9780813536767 |
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0813536766 |
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9780813536774 |
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0813536774 |
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9786613806987 |
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6613806986 |
| OCLC # |
68624603 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Seytre, Bernard. Histoire de l'eradication de la poliomyelite. English. Death of a disease. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2005 0813536766 0813536774 (DLC) 2005002654 (OCoLC)57557362 |
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