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  Polio Polio

TYPE: Virus

FAVORITE HANGOUT:Intestine and nervous system

LIKES:Moving to the brain and spinal cord, where it can cause paralysis

DISLIKES:The vaccine developed in 1954 that has tamed it throughout most of the world

©Jean-Yves Sgro, University of Wisconsin
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