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Hardcover The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown Book
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ISBN: 1603441409

ISBN13: 9781603441407

The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown

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From the 1930s to the 1950s, in response to the rising epidemic of paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), Texas researchers led a wave of discoveries in virology, rehabilitative therapies, and the modern intensive care unit that transformed the field nationally.

The disease threatened the lives of children and adults in the United States, especially in the South, arousing the same kind of fear more recently associated with AIDS and other dread diseases...

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