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Shot in the arm in fight against polio

New funding could help to eradicate the terrible scourge of a preventable disease. And Scots are in the battle�s front line, discovers Alison Chiesa.

They call them the "sand crawlers" - the children in Africa and Asia whose bodies are so broken by polio that they can only move around on their bellies.