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
  • These are frightening times as the coronavirus spreads in ways reminiscent of poliomyelitis.
    — Carl Kurlander, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
  • After several weeks of confusion about the safety of the new poliomyelitis vaccine, mass tests got underway last month.
    — Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2020
  • In living memory and on every continent, the poliomyelitis virus ravaged lives.
    — Thomas Levenson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The world’s first countywide inoculation against poliomyelitis was carried out in San Diego County.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The organization set a goal of vaccinating all children against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, poliomyelitis, and tuberculosis.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 17 May 2020
  • Other vaccines including for poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella will remain in place unless updated through legislation, according to the state Department of Health.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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