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Web Sites:
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative - Polio eradication ­ Polio Vaccines
http://www.who.int/vaccines-polio/vaccines.htm

American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/family/parents/immunize.htm

The Polio Information Center Online (PICO)
http://cumicro2.cpmc.columbia.edu/PICO/PICO.html

Center for Disease Control:
http://www.cdc.gov

PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org

Encarta Online:
http://encarta.msn.com

Medical Microbiology Fourth Editon Samuel Baron, MD
http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch053.htm

http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/335/Picornaviruses.html

http://www.azstarnet.com/~rspear/once2.html

http://www.azstarnet.com/~rspear/effects.html

Global Polio Eradication Initiative

http://www.polioeradication.org

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