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AITKEN, SALLY / HELEN D'ORAZIO / STEWART VALIN ( EDS ) Polio and Those Who Lived with It, the Story of - Walking Fingers - the Canadian Polio Epidemic
Toronto: Vehicule Pub, 2004. 2004 Printing. Soft Cover. Photos. 6 x 9" 1550651803 2004 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 239 pages, illustrated with B&W Photographs ...Not until many years later would an illness grip Canada like the polio epidmics which began in 1927 ... For the next twenty-five years, causes of poliomyelitis increased in numbers , and in severity ... During the major outbreaks of the 1940s, hospitals were overwhelmed ... It was only with the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccine to thousands of children across Canada, that the virus was brought under control ... From prime minister to immigrant, polio touched all layers of Canadian society ... The true stories of polio survivors and their caregivers form the core of 'Walking Fingers' ..." Walking Fingers :The Story of Polio and Those Who Lived With It " Edited by ... by Sally Aitken, Helen D'Orazio & Stewart Valin ... published by Vehicule Press, Toronto ... in English only ... 2004 softcover book ***. New .
Offered for US$ 18.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 6422
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