How to Use polio in a Sentence

polio

noun

• Ruth Alexander, his mom’s mom, had lost use of much of the right side of her body, which some thought was due to polio.
  — Matt Kempner, ajc, 22 June 2023
• The medal is named for the doctor who developed the oral polio vaccine.
  — Richard Sandomir, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
• McConnell, a polio survivor, has served in the Senate since 1985.
  — Alan He, Nikole Killion, Jack Turman, CBS News, 26 July 2023
• This is on top of a surge in polio found in wastewater samples across London.
  — Ashwin Vasan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
• The Milwaukee school opened in 1939 to serve children with polio.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified in July in New York state.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified in July in New York State.
  — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• In the summer of 1955, an outbreak of polio hit the Boston area just months after a vaccine was approved, but not in time to stop the surge.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2022
• Will 2024 be the year the world finally stops polio transmission?
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Dec. 2023
• For decades, scientists have tracked the spread of diseases such as polio and cholera by sampling sewage.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Later in his youth, he was struck by polio and once again overcame the affliction against all odds.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2023
• Other diseases that are rare in the U.S., like polio, are still claiming victims.
  — Paul Law, STAT, 12 Mar. 2024
• Margaret didn’t top out anywhere near 5 feet, due to polio as much as parentage.
  — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2022
• Most adults and children in the US are vaccinated against polio.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
• Limited health resources were also stretched thin by Covid-19 and a polio outbreak, the first in 30 years.
  — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023
• Will my 50-year-old polio vaccines still protect me in an outbreak?
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
• Mothers are bringing their 2-month-olds to receive their polio shots.
  — Aaron Short, Curbed, 15 Sep. 2022
• Most people infected with polio have no symptoms but can still give the virus to others for days or weeks.
  — Michael Hill, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
• Moshe’s wife, Chona, the proprietor of the novel’s eponymous store, has a chronic limp from childhood polio.
  — Hawa Allan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• The heroic cop, who survived polio in the book, is an Arab American disabled by a hate crime in the show’s backstory.
  — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• His uncle had polio—one of his legs was shorter than the other—and at times had difficulty moving up and down the stairs.
  — Hannah Kingsley-Ma, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2022
• The polio vaccine was introduced in the United States in 1955, for example.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• Like the polio vaccine, the first RSV vaccine was based on a whole inactivated virus.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
• That’s a huge reason why no cases of polio caused by wild poliovirus have originated in the U.S. since 1979.
  — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
• Campaign for Vaccination against measles, mumps, rubella and polio for girls and boys aged 13 months to 4 years old.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
• The person lived in a part of the Netherlands where the vaccination rate for polio is less than 90%, exacerbating the risk.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Feb. 2023
• Much of the later progress has been against tropical diseases like malaria as well as smallpox and polio.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• At the same time, existing Covid-19 vaccines are nowhere near as protective as the polio vaccine.
  — Lynn R. Goldman and Amanda D. Castel, STAT, 11 Nov. 2022
• Mehta, a paraplegic since a childhood case of polio, goes on to explain that the six X-rays were taken before and after her most major surgery.
  — Seth Combscontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• At the time, Lisa was hospitalized with polio, which had paralyzed her right side.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024