Polio or poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. Polio can cause temporary or permanent paralysis. Polio is a crippling disease that is feared all over the world. It is feared by so many people because in 1952 3,145 people, including 1,873 children in the United States died from this horrible disease. People all over the world were feared that they would end up getting the disease, as well. Although polio can cause paralysis and death, the majority of people who are infected with the poliovirus don’t become sick and are never aware they’ve been infected with polio. Some people who develop symptoms from the poliovirus contract nonparalytic polio, which is a type of polio when you don’t become paralyzed. Some symptoms are fever, headache, sore throat, and muscle tenderness or weakness.
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Polio was most commonly found in Africa or the Middle East. The disease can easily be imported into a polio-free country and can spread rapidly amongst unimmunized populations. Polio made a huge turn because it’s death toll has decreased by over 99% since 1988. This affected people because there were less people with polio. Their risk of getting polio and becoming permanently paralyzed dramatically decreased. Jonas Salk was remembered mainly for the polio vaccine because polio was the most crippling disease for a long time and everyone was fearful because they didn’t know if they would get the disease because they weren’t vaccinated. He was remembered because he saved lots of lives by creating a successful and safe polio vaccine in 1955. They also didn’t know if they had polio because the disease is hard to detect, the symptoms can be very broad. He was remembered because many other scientists tried to find a vaccine to stop polio from happening and he was the only one to make a successful vaccine in that time
Polio was most commonly found in Africa or the Middle East. The disease can easily be imported into a polio-free country and can spread rapidly amongst unimmunized populations. Polio made a huge turn because it’s death toll has decreased by over 99% since 1988. This affected people because there were less people with polio. Their risk of getting polio and becoming permanently paralyzed dramatically decreased. Jonas Salk was remembered mainly for the polio vaccine because polio was the most crippling disease for a long time and everyone was fearful because they didn’t know if they would get the disease because they weren’t vaccinated. He was remembered because he saved lots of lives by creating a successful and safe polio vaccine in 1955. They also didn’t know if they had polio because the disease is hard to detect, the symptoms can be very broad. He was remembered because many other scientists tried to find a vaccine to stop polio from happening and he was the only one to make a successful vaccine in that time