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Web sites:
Aventis
Pasteur's "Polio Eradication"
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
End of Polio
Global Alliance
for Vaccines and Immunization
Global
Polio Eradication Initiative -- includes the latest eradication
news and case count information
Poliomyelitis
Fact Sheet -- provided by the World Health Organization
Polio
Connection of America -- Links for polio survivors
Polio
Information Center Online
Post-Polio
Health International -- Actively promotes education, research,
advocacy, and networking among the post-polio community
Sabin Vaccine Insitute
Salk Institute for
Biological Studies
The United Nations
Foundation polio information
The
University of Michigan Medical School -- Photo exhibit
UNICEF's "A
World Without Polio"
Voice of
America Polio Eradication Project
Books:
"Dirt and Disease, Polio before
FDR" by Naomi Rogers, Rutgers University Press
"The End of Polio: A Global Effort
to End a Disease" by Sebastião Salgado, Bulfinch Press
"Getting There: Growing up with
Polio in the 30's" by Robert C. Huse, Bloomington Ind,: 1st
Books Library
"A History of Poliomyelitis"
by J.R. Paul, New Haven: Yale University Press
"In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal
and Social History" by Kathryn Black, Arizona: Addison-Wesley
Publishers
"A Paralyzing Fear : The Story
of Polio in America" by Nina Gilden Seavey, Jane S. Smith,
Paul Wagner, TV Books
"Polio Epidemic: Crippling Virus
Outbreak (American Disasters)" by Victoria Sherrow, Enslow
Publishers, Inc.
"The Story of Jonas Salk and the
Discovery of the Polio Vaccine" by Jim Hargrove; Children's
Book Press
Videos:
"A
Paralyzing Fear : The Story of Polio in America" (TV)
Sister
Kenny (1946)
For educators:
Download
your classroom guide here. (PDF Format)
Polio Partners:
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
The
CORE Group
Pan American Health
Organization
Rotary International
UNICEF
The UN Foundation
USAID (U.S. Agency
for International Development)
The World Health Organization
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