How to Use poliomyelitis in a Sentence

poliomyelitis

noun

• Your son needs some attention to repair the damage caused by the poliomyelitis.
  — Adam O’Fallon Price, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The disease poliomyelitis, or polio, had been in the medical textbooks for decades.
  — Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American, 17 June 2021
• Polio—short for poliomyelitis—was a mid-20th-century scourge that sickened tens of thousands of people and killed thousands each year.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2021
• After several weeks of confusion about the safety of the new poliomyelitis vaccine, mass tests got underway last month.
  — Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2020
• The technique has been used to stifle numerous outbreaks of viral diseases such as poliomyelitis, measles, mumps and influenza.
  — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2020
• The practice of treating those sick with a disease with plasma from those who've recovered from the same disease, goes back more than a century and has been used to stem outbreaks of poliomyelitis, measles, mumps and influenza.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2020
• Paralytic poliomyelitis is no longer a problem in the U.S. because of development and use of effective vaccines against the poliovirus.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 May 2021
• In living memory and on every continent, the poliomyelitis virus ravaged lives.
  — Thomas Levenson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Polio or poliomyelitis is caused by the poliovirus — an infectious disease that for the majority of those infected causes no symptoms.
  — Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Sep. 2021
• The world’s first countywide inoculation against poliomyelitis was carried out in San Diego County.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The technique of using plasma from people who have recovered from a disease to treat others with the same disease goes back more than a century and has been successful in stemming outbreaks of poliomyelitis, measles, mumps and influenza.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2020
• One day before Sawyer’s death, on 24 July, the worried parents of a 16-month-old toddler in Kano state had discovered their child was suffering from the symptoms of a disease had supposedly been largely wiped out of existence – poliomyelitis.
  — Karen Bartlett, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2014
• There isn't an iota of doubt that vaccines are an overwhelmingly safe and effective way to prevent measles and other diseases, including mumps, rubella, poliomyelitis and pertussis.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2019
• Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease, which invades the nervous system and spreads mainly through contamination by fecal matter.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• The organization set a goal of vaccinating all children against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, poliomyelitis, and tuberculosis.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 17 May 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024