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Poliomyelitis

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  • A nurse tends a baby on a mothers lap within a map of Nigeria: immunization against polio in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Northern League of NGO's, ca. 1997.
  • Disabled children on crutches: preventing polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Children with orthopedic disorders. Twenty six pen drawings.
  • A nurse tends a baby on a mothers lap within a map of Nigeria: immunization of polio in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Northern League of NGO's, ca. 1997.
  • Immunizations covered by Ministry of Health in Kenya: measles, tetanus in infants and polio. Colour lithograph by KEPI, Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A nurse tends a baby on a mothers lap within a map of Nigeria: immunization of polio in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Northern League of NGO's, ca. 1997.
  • Beobachtungen über Lähmungszustände der untern Extremitäten und deren Behandlung / Von J. Heine.
  • Two children with disabilities and another receiving a vaccine: polio innoculation in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.
  • A child with his mother receiving the oral polio vaccination: preventing polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Strategies, objectives, definitions and steps for AFP surveillance for polio eradication in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
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  • view Health facility action plan in the event of acute flaccid paralysis: treating polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
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    Health facility action plan in the event of acute flaccid paralysis: treating polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.

    | Date: [2000?] | Reference: 755659i
  • view Infantile paralysis in Massachusetts during 1910.
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    Infantile paralysis in Massachusetts during 1910.

    Massachusetts. State Board of Health | Date: 1911
  • view Three cases of acute anterior polio-myelitis (acute spinal paralysis) in adults / by W. Allen Sturge.
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    Three cases of acute anterior polio-myelitis (acute spinal paralysis) in adults / by W. Allen Sturge.

    Sturge, William Allen, 1850-1919. | Date: 1879
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    Polio and its problems / by Roland H. Berg.

    Berg, Roland H. (Roland Hobsbawn), 1908- | Date: [1948]
  • view De la paralysie atrophique graisseuse de l'enfance.
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    De la paralysie atrophique graisseuse de l'enfance.

    Duchenne, G.-B. (Guillaume-Benjamin), 1806-1875 | Date: 1864
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