Poliomyelitis, otherwise know as polio, is the effect on the spinal cord that leads to the classic manifestation of paralysis. There are 3 stereotypes of polio each extremely different from the other and an immunity to one doesn’t mean you have an immunity to the other 2 and during Jonas’s time polio was a big deal and many people were working on trying to solve it. He worked on his vaccine for a long time and after he discovered a way to use an inactivated form of the viruses, he did this by putting the viruses in formaldehyde, he created the world’s first polio vaccine. The one problem with the vaccine, it was not widely accepted at first because of the controversial way of the vaccine being introduced into the body. Over six years however the incidence rate of polio the rate dropped by 95% (Biography). His work on the vaccine was important in furthering the advancements of medicinal
Poliomyelitis, otherwise know as polio, is the effect on the spinal cord that leads to the classic manifestation of paralysis. There are 3 stereotypes of polio each extremely different from the other and an immunity to one doesn’t mean you have an immunity to the other 2 and during Jonas’s time polio was a big deal and many people were working on trying to solve it. He worked on his vaccine for a long time and after he discovered a way to use an inactivated form of the viruses, he did this by putting the viruses in formaldehyde, he created the world’s first polio vaccine. The one problem with the vaccine, it was not widely accepted at first because of the controversial way of the vaccine being introduced into the body. Over six years however the incidence rate of polio the rate dropped by 95% (Biography). His work on the vaccine was important in furthering the advancements of medicinal