Polio is a disease that causes muscular dystrophy and affects nerves that could lead to partial or full paralysis. A basic understanding is not necessarily needed because I chose to focus this paper more on the prevention and detection of polio rather than what polio is. Though I felt it important that those reading this should understand to a certain degree what this disease is. Now as for what I researched, I started with the detection element. My first article was about the detection of the polio virus in river and sewage water. As Pavlov (2006) states, “the aim of the study was to determine the occurrence of [polio] strains in selected sewage and river water samples” (p. 1). They collected 138 samples of river water and 213 samples of
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In the first article the point of Pavlov 's (2006) study was to show just how bad the river and sewage water was in the area, but in his study he also found that what was needed was a vaccine that worked with immunodeficient population because they could possibly infect others after they ceased taking the vaccine. In article two once the researchers had finished their statistical model they stated in their conclusion that polio outbreaks “resulted mainly from continued transmission in Nigeria and other countries that reported polio cases and from poor immunization status” (O 'Reilly et al., 2011, p. 10). The third article was about the new standards of immunization put forth by the World Health Organization and in its conclusion it stated that “low [vaccination] coverage in several countries was a significant contributory factor to the 2003–2004 regional resurgence of wild polio virus transmission” (Arevshatian et al., 2007, p. 451). The last article as mention above does not fit into the idea that immunization is the key to polio 's eradication, but part of it still had a focus on immunization; that focus was to see whether or not compulsory immunization was having an effect using the AFP …show more content…
Articles two and four focused more on the finding and predicting of outbreaks. These articles were attempting to show that just treating the disease was not enough, we must be able to find people with the disease, monitor them, and be ready for possible outbreaks. In the second article O 'Reilly et al. (2011) used their predictive forecast to see where potential outbreaks could occur so that countries could prepare for an outbreak before it even began. The fourth article did something similar, they checked to see if the resources for finding polio patients were being used by countries and found that the countries that were given resources took them and added them to the surveillance and detection systems the country had already put in place. Both O 'Reilly et al. (2011) and Nsubuga et al. (2002) said at some point that their efforts helped significantly reduced transmission
In the first article the point of Pavlov 's (2006) study was to show just how bad the river and sewage water was in the area, but in his study he also found that what was needed was a vaccine that worked with immunodeficient population because they could possibly infect others after they ceased taking the vaccine. In article two once the researchers had finished their statistical model they stated in their conclusion that polio outbreaks “resulted mainly from continued transmission in Nigeria and other countries that reported polio cases and from poor immunization status” (O 'Reilly et al., 2011, p. 10). The third article was about the new standards of immunization put forth by the World Health Organization and in its conclusion it stated that “low [vaccination] coverage in several countries was a significant contributory factor to the 2003–2004 regional resurgence of wild polio virus transmission” (Arevshatian et al., 2007, p. 451). The last article as mention above does not fit into the idea that immunization is the key to polio 's eradication, but part of it still had a focus on immunization; that focus was to see whether or not compulsory immunization was having an effect using the AFP …show more content…
Articles two and four focused more on the finding and predicting of outbreaks. These articles were attempting to show that just treating the disease was not enough, we must be able to find people with the disease, monitor them, and be ready for possible outbreaks. In the second article O 'Reilly et al. (2011) used their predictive forecast to see where potential outbreaks could occur so that countries could prepare for an outbreak before it even began. The fourth article did something similar, they checked to see if the resources for finding polio patients were being used by countries and found that the countries that were given resources took them and added them to the surveillance and detection systems the country had already put in place. Both O 'Reilly et al. (2011) and Nsubuga et al. (2002) said at some point that their efforts helped significantly reduced transmission