How to Use polio in a Sentence

polio

noun

• The last case of wild polio in the U.K. was reported in 1984.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
• If polio struck fear in the hearts of parents, measles did not.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• Sushkevych, 67, had polio as a child and moves about in a wheelchair.
  — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Thanks to vaccines, the United States has been polio-free since 1979.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• But in 2022, traces of wild polio virus were found in wastewater in three New York counties.
  — Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 17 May 2024
• For a month since that first polio case, the CDC has clung to its testing monopoly.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
• Adding to Gazans’ woes, doctors last week detected the first case of polio in the enclave in 25 years.
  — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
• 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
• My father had polio and was paralyzed from the chest down.
  — Juliet Pennington, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 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
• Right now, one of the biggest concerns is disease—polio being a big one.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
• For decades, scientists have tracked the spread of diseases such as polio and cholera by sampling sewage.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Rockland County polio case is the first identified in the United States in nearly a decade.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
• Afghanistan and Pakistan are now the only countries left in the world where polio is endemic.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The oral polio vaccine is no longer administered in the U.S.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• The virus found in these regions is derived from an oral polio vaccine used in some countries.
  — Heidi Ledford, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2022
• 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
• And to think that polio could be ended in my lifetime was something that was so magical to me.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
• 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
• Where Gaza’s polio came from Health officials sequenced the polio virus that appeared in Gaza and traced it to a strain last seen in Egypt in 2023.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
• Who said what Gaza's first case of polio in 25 years was confirmed last week in a 10-month-old boy who is now partially paralyzed.
  — Rafi Schwartz, theweek, 30 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024