How to Use polio in a Sentence

polio

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  • The last case of wild polio in the U.K. was reported in 1984.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
  • If polio struck fear in the hearts of parents, measles did not.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Sushkevych, 67, had polio as a child and moves about in a wheelchair.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Ruth Alexander, his mom’s mom, had lost use of much of the right side of her body, which some thought was due to polio.
    — Matt Kempner, ajc, 22 June 2023
  • The school was the first to administer the polio vaccine in 1954.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Toy will become the first polio survivor to take on the role of FDR in the musical.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The medal is named for the doctor who developed the oral polio vaccine.
    — Richard Sandomir, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Thanks to vaccines, the United States has been polio-free since 1979.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • But in 2022, traces of wild polio virus were found in wastewater in three New York counties.
    — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024
  • The trial achieved its goal: Sixty-five years later, the United States and most of the world are polio-free.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2021
  • For a month since that first polio case, the CDC has clung to its testing monopoly.
    — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Adding to Gazans’ woes, doctors last week detected the first case of polio in the enclave in 25 years.
    — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
  • McConnell, a polio survivor, has served in the Senate since 1985.
    — Alan He, Nikole Killion, Jack Turman, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • This is on top of a surge in polio found in wastewater samples across London.
    — Ashwin Vasan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Milwaukee school opened in 1939 to serve children with polio.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified in July in New York state.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified in July in New York State.
    — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • My father had polio and was paralyzed from the chest down.
    — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • In the summer of 1955, an outbreak of polio hit the Boston area just months after a vaccine was approved, but not in time to stop the surge.
    — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Will 2024 be the year the world finally stops polio transmission?
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Right now, one of the biggest concerns is disease—polio being a big one.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
  • For decades, scientists have tracked the spread of diseases such as polio and cholera by sampling sewage.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Rockland County polio case is the first identified in the United States in nearly a decade.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Afghanistan and Pakistan are now the only countries left in the world where polio is endemic.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The oral polio vaccine is no longer administered in the U.S.
    — Allison Prang, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The virus found in these regions is derived from an oral polio vaccine used in some countries.
    — Heidi Ledford, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Later in his youth, he was struck by polio and once again overcame the affliction against all odds.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • And to think that polio could be ended in my lifetime was something that was so magical to me.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • Her friends could be especially cruel to Julien (Orlando Schwerdt), a boy whose kindness toward Sara is overshadowed by the fact that polio has forced him to walk with a crutch.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Israeli officials have not commented on the pause of the polio vaccination campaign.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024

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