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== Further reading ==
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*{{cite book | author = Frauenthal HWA, Manning JVV | title = Manual of infantile paralysis, with modern methods of treatment: Pathology. | publisher = Davis | location = Philadelphia| year = 1914| url= http://books.google.com/books?vid=029ZCFMPZ0giNI1KiG6E&id=piyLQnuT-1YC&printsec=titlepage | pages = pp. 79–101 | oclc = 2078290}} (Full text available from Google Books, with hundreds of pictures.)
* {{cite book |author = Huckstep RL |title=Poliomyelitis: a guide for developing countries - including appliances and rehabilitation for the disabled |url= http://www.worldortho.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=522&Itemid=267 |publisher=Churchill Livingstone |location=Edinburgh |year=1975 |pages= |isbn=0443013128 |oclc= |doi=}} (A look at the modern polio patient and polio treatment techniques.)
* http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/polio.pdf
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis
* {{dmoz|Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Infectious_Diseases/Viral/Poliomyelitis/}}
* [http://www.scq.ubc.ca/?p=45 Polio: A Virus' Struggle] – an amusing yet educational graphic novella from the ''Science Creative Quarterly'' (co-published by the University of British Columbia, in PDF format).
* [http://www.paho.org/English/DPI/Number2_article8.htm Fermín: Making Polio History] An article about Luis Fermín Tenorio Cortez, the last case of polio reported in the Americas.
* [http://www.johnprestwich.btinternet.co.uk/40-years-a-layabout.htm A UK Polio survivor] – An account of John Prestwich, who lived 50 years in an iron lung.
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== Acknowledgements ==
== Acknowledgements ==

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