Battlefields: the Story of Polio

BATTLEFIELDS: THE STORY OF POLIO     BY DR GARETH WILLIAMS

Date: 10th February

Start time:   18:30

End time:    19:30

Where: Tobacco Factory, Raleigh Road, Bristol, BS3 2AJ

Author: Western branch, Society of Biology

A lecture by Dr Gareth Williams on the history of the polio virus.
Polio, as Gareth Williams suggests, was one of the diseases that defined the 20th century. It is a disease that also defines the history of medicine. Millions of lives have been tragically lost since poliomyelitis was first identified in 1847, yet we are now at a point where polio has almost been completely eradictaed. It has been a fasicnating story and you are invited to join the Western branch of the Socity of Biology at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol to learn more from expert, Dr Gareth Williams. 

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