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[21-23] - Read the following passage and choose the correct answers to the questions given after
Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and spinal cord causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis-which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 years gap between the first and the last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.
Today perhaps your only association with the word 'polio' is the Sabin Oral Vaccine that protects children from the disease. Fifty five years ago this was not so. The dreaded disease, which mainly affects the brain and spinal cord causing stiffening and weakening of muscles, crippling and paralysis-which is why I am in a wheelchair today. If somebody had predicted, when I was the seventh child in a family of four pairs of brothers and sisters, with huge 23 years gap between the first and the last. I was so fair and brown haired that I looked more look like a foreigner than a Dawood Bohri. I was also considered to be the healthiest of the brood.
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