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involvement What is the Polio Virus? The first polio epidemic in the US occurs in
Vermont in 1894, consisting of 132 cases,
including some adults.
including What is the Polio Virus? Polio becomes a reportable disease in 1908
as Austrian physicians Karl Landsteiner and
E. Popper identify the polio virus.
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A llarge outbreak of polio in the US in 1916
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with over 9000 cases in New York City alone.
with What is the Polio Virus? In 1921 Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracts
polio and is left with severe paraly...
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