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040			_aAEA _beng _cAEA _dAEA _erda
050	0	0	_aRC 180.9 _b.P442 2005
100	1		_aPeters, Stephanie True, _d1965- _912959
245	1	4	_aThe battle against polio _cby Stephanie True Peters.
264			_aNew York : _bBenchmark Books, _cc2005.
265			_aDON
300			_aix, 69 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c27 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEpidemic!
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 63-67) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : tragedy and triumph -- From obscurity to epidemic. What is polio? Polio's early history. On the heels of the industrial revolution -- The early years of polio research. Dr. Ivar Wickman. Landsteiner and Popper. Dr. Simon Flexner -- Polio on the rise. New York city epidemic, 1916. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A bright spot -- Coping with the incurable. The iron lung. Sister Kenny, crusader against polio. Ordinary people, extraordinary lives. -- Vaccine trials--and errors. Brodie and Kolmer. The typing program. The 1952 epidemic -- Salk and Sabin. The Sabin vaccine -- Conclusion: polio today.
520			_aDiscusses the cause of polio and the infection process, its history and search for a cure, and the course it took in the United States between 1900 and the early 1960s.
650		0	_aPoliomyelitis _xHistory _vJuvenile literature. _912960
800	1		_aPeters, Stephanie True, _d1965- _tEpidemic! _912962
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004003408.html
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