Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
Etymologia
Etymologia: Poliomyelitis
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Figure. This historic 1975 photograph shows a laboratory technician preparing doses of polio vaccine by placing a liquid droplet of the vaccine on each of these sugar cubes, which would subsequently be ingested orally by each recipient. Photo: Public Health Image Library, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1975
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