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Poliomyelitis

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Myelitis
Enterovirus diseases

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Images from the collections

Images about Poliomyelitis

29 images from works
  • 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.
  • R.W.Lovett, Treatment of Infantile Paralysis
  • 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.
  • 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.

Works from the collections

326 works

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    The treatment of infantile paralysis / by Oskar Vulpius ; translated by A. H. Todd.

    Vulpius, Oscar, 1867-1936. | Date: 1912
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    Some people say that medical research uses too many animals ... : getting your facts straight / The Physiological Society.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]
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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
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    Giovanni Battista Monteggia (Laveno 1762 - -Milano 1815) e la chiurgia milanese del suo tempo : atti del Convegno Internazionale, Laveno, 1. dicembre 2012 / a cura di Giuseppe Armocida, Andrea Frigo, Giuseppe Musumeci.

    | Date: [2014]
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    Infantile paralysis in Massachusetts during 1910.

    Massachusetts. State Board of Health. | Date: 1911

Related topics

History, 20th Century
United States
Persons with Disabilities
Vaccination
Disease Outbreaks
Kenya
United Kingdom
Immunization
Jonas Salk
Red Cross

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