Poliomyelitis

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Stele Aegyptia, imago viri poliomyelite adflicti habita. Domus 18, 1403–1365 a.C.n.

Poliomyelitis (e verbis Graecis πολιός 'color cineraceus' + μυελός 'medulla' + suffixum -itis 'inflammatio'), aliquando tantum polio, sive paralysis infantilis, est acutus morbus viralis, accurate infectio, ab homine ad hominum transmissa, praecipue per viam faecalem-oralem. Causa est poliovirus. Homines hoc morbo laborantes saepe facultatem ambulandi amittunt.

Praeclarae victimae

• Apollinarius Mabini
• Franklinus Delano Roosevelt

Bibliographia

• Daniel, Thomas M.; Robbins, Frederick C. (1999). Polio. Rochester, N.Y., USA: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 1-58046-066-6 
• Frauenthal HWA, Manning JVV (1914). Manual of infantile paralysis, with modern methods of treatment: Pathology.. Philadelphia: Davis. pp. 79–101 
• Gould, Tony (1997). A summer plague: polio and its survivors. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07276-7 
• Huckstep RL (1975). Poliomyelitis: a guide for developing countries including appliances and rehabilitation for the disabled. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 0-443-01312-8 
• Kluger Jefferey (2004). Splendid Solution - Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-15216-4 
• Oshinsky, David M. (2005). Polio: an American story. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515294-8 
• Shaffer, Mary M.; Bernard Seytre (2005). The death of a disease: a history of the eradication of poliomyelitis. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3677-4 
• Shell, Marc (2005). Polio and its aftermath: the paralysis of culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01315-8 
• Wilson, Daniel J. (2005). Living with polio: the epidemic and its survivors. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-90103-3 
• Wilson, Daniel J.; Julie Silver (2007). Polio voices: an oral history from the American polio epidemics and worldwide eradication efforts. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-99492-9 

Nexus externi

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