Tag: polio
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June 21, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
SETTING: Summer of 1916, New York City
PUBLIC HEALTH FACT: Polio epidemic outbreak
QUESTION: Immigrants from what country were blamed for this? Why?
a. Italy
b. Israel
c. . . . more
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . . more
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December 15, 2006 09:19 PM EST --
It would be difficult to imagine a better childhood than I had. I mean it could have been better if I hadn't been a scrawny weakling -- but as far as other things go it was in retrospect hard . . . more
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November 06, 2007 09:32 AM EST --
Poliomyelitis is an infectious disease which is caused by a virus. It is spread from person to person, via the oral-fecal route. IOn other words, a person becomes infected by coming into contact with . . . more
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August 22, 2007 01:06 PM EDT --
I was immediately sucked into this novel by the prologue. The author was contacted by a fan who wanted her to write an autobiography of her amazing mother, a woman who had given birth after . . . more
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November 20, 2005 11:29 PM EST --
Immunizations only work en massse. That is a simple concept. Yet so many people, particularly certain parents don't believe that their children should be immunized. It is this selfish . . . more
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October 22, 2006 08:55 AM EDT --
In 1996 I met Saja in an IRC chat room. Over several months of chatting, emailing, and finally talking on the phone we developed a close relationship. I learned early on that her real name . . . more
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August 09, 2006 11:24 PM EDT --
I have a Queen sized bed after years of sleeping on a single sized bed. It is a Da Vinci's Rafael Queen sized mattress and box spring ($1,400 set found at a furniture closing for $400.)
I posted . . . more
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August 23, 2007 12:02 PM EDT --
Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the World Health Organization (WHO) annual report states. Annually some 2.1 billion airline passengers fly wolrdwide & . . . more
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April 09, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on April 9, 2005
The Need to Touch
This week, pilgrims flooded into Rome to see the Pope's body. So Weekend America wondered: why are we drawn to something we think is good or holy? Why . . . more
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February 05, 2006 12:31 AM EST --
Unless you are one of the richest, and most outrageous moguls on earth, it's not likely anyone will assign a reporter full time to find out what your "word" is, or to make a movie about it. . . . more
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