Synonyms for polio
ˈpoʊ liˌoʊpo·lio

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1. poliomyelitis, polio, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitisnoun

   an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord

   Synonyms:
   acute anterior poliomyelitis, poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis

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1. • Infectious Disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "polio":

   poliomyelitis, poliovirus, polio-free, paralysis

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1. Noor Hisham:

   The health ministry would like to stress that the best way to eradicate polio is through immunization. Contagious diseases such as polio know no boundaries.

2. Planned Parenthood:

   This work is often critical to life-saving medical research, and has helped with important breakthroughs, such as the polio vaccine and research into a cure for Alzheimer's disease, as we have made clear from the beginning, Planned Parenthood has never sold fetal tissue for profit.

3. Raul Andino:

   If I get this inactivated polio vaccine and somehow I get infected, I would not know that I got infected because I am completely protected, but I will act as a vector, transmitting this virus almost at the same rate as if I had no vaccination, it's very effective to prevent disease, but it's not effective to prevent spread from people to people.

4. Alex Corbishley:

   Wastewater epidemiology has been part of monitoring of polio infection across the world, so it's not completely new, but it's never really been applied to an outbreak in this way.

5. Barack Obama:

   I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to lead a new era of medicine - one that delivers the right treatment at the right time, tonight, I'm launching a new precision medicine initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes - and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier.