1.   If flies could be eliminated, then perhaps so could polio epidemics.

2.   In polio epidemics, rewards and punishments were dispensed with a random, devastating hand.

3.   What the experimenters did not account for in their preparations was the hysteria that surrounded polio epidemics.

4.   Polio epidemics led fearful parents to isolate their children and shun strangers.

5.   A mass vaccination campaign has helped curb a polio epidemic in Albania, with the World Health Organization on Tuesday reporting a sharp decline in new cases there.

6.   A year later, she helped battle a polio epidemic in New Haven.

7.   The U.N. agency said there was no indication that the ailment was linked to a recent polio epidemic in the Balkan region.

8.   Vaccines sent to Chechnya to tackle a polio epidemic were four months past their expiration date, the officials reported.

9.   Lherisson said the Japanese donation, the second it has made to the campaign, would help prevent a polio epidemic in the war-torn DRC.