Bird's design was based on a modification of an existing instrument for the local electrical treatment of hemiplegia, and consisted of a silver electrode and a zinc electrode connected by copper wire.

Sami had a migraine headache.

My lower half is appearing at a different conference in a different country.

On becoming President, Barack Obama replaced it with a bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Hagar, portrait bust of a woman with Syriac inscription c.

Immunization against children's paralyses

The music's half of me, but the other half I landed probably the best gig of all.

The detection principles of the two projects are very similar, but they point toward opposite hemispheres.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

Ophthalmoparesis or ophthalmoplegia refers to weakness ( paresis) or paralysis ( plegia) of one or more extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.

Reform has stalled amid profound political paralysis.

Targeting anti polio efforts in Pakistan

The brain is intentionally by the way, there's a shaft of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain called the corpus callosum. It's thicker in women.

In most species, when a diatom divides to produce two daughter cells, each cell keeps one of the two halves and grows a smaller half within it.

Bruce Aylward How we'll stop polio for good

Here's a great idea to spread End polio now.

And the tilt also explains the sun's angle of elevation at different times of year, and predicts that the seasons will be out of phase in the two hemispheres.

Picornaviruses these are things that include the common cold and polio, things like this.

The first is that, when we started trying to eradicate polio about 20 years ago, more than twice as many countries were infected than had been when we started off with smallpox.

He soon sponsored the unveiling of a bust of the assassinated Israeli premier Yitzak Rabin at Brasov in Transylvania.

What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

Nineteen years later, Aseefa is Pakistan s Goodwill Ambassador on Polio Eradication and a powerful advocate of completing her mother s dream of a polio free country.

If only one limb is affected, the correct term is monoplegia.

Delegations also expressed concern about the resurgence of polio.

Presiding over this microcosm of Europe was a double throned Emperor King and twin parliaments representing the largely independent Austrian and Hungarian halves of the realm.

In response to the reappearance of polio in the Sudan in 2004, four mass polio vaccination campaigns were carried out in Darfur, reaching 100 per cent of the target under 15 population.

This work enabled Jonas Salk to make an effective polio vaccine.

We must avoid a situation in which the negotiating stalemate also provokes a paralysis in our deliberations and our dialogue.

was in its day an unprecedented event never before had two halves of the world, which had not had the slightest contact with one another for millennia, come face to face, nor had human beings had to confront other mythologies, architecture, aesthetics, languages, memories...

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Mass immunization has largely eliminated polio.

Polio today has become an example of the complex problems plaguing Pakistan s state and its society.

Antipolio worker, Hilal Khan, is honored in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Strongly affirms its commitment to the eradication of polio from all OIC Member States so that they can contribute effectively to the goal of Global Polio Eradication.

The Conference strongly affirmed its commitment to the eradication of polio in all the OIC Member States so as to enable them to contribute effectively to achieving the objective of the international programme to eradicate poliomyelitis.

Eradicating polio will be a milestone on our path to realizing this vision.

Widespread public support for polio eradication efforts has been reflected in a parliamentary resolution.

In 2011, a polio outbreak in China was traced back to Pakistan.

Already, Pakistan is responsible for the recent appearance of wild poliovirus in Egypt.

It marked the latest in a series of attacks on polio vaccination charity workers.

In 1930, when Williams was seven years old, his father began suffering from facial paralysis.

Diphtheria can also cause paralysis in the eye, neck, throat, or respiratory muscles.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, led by CDC, Rotary International, UNICEF and WHO, saw an almost 50 per cent decline in the number of reported cases in 2004 in Asia.