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Poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route. The term derives from the Greek poliós (πολιός), meaning "grey", myelós (µυελός), referring to the "spinal cord", and the suffix -itis,...
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| 1954 | "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue" | Thomas Huckle Weller | |||||
| John Franklin Enders | |||||||
| Frederick Chapman Robbins | |||||||