Jonas Salk

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Jonas Salk. WHAT : Invented the Polio Vaccine. WHEN : 1955 WHERE : Salk and his lab tech team (him, his wife, and their three sons) at The University of Pittsburgh WHY : In 1955, there was nearly 29,000 cases of polio in the US. By 1957, that number had decreased to a little less than 6…

symptoms can still pass the virus to make others feel sick Jonas Salk was born on October 28, 1914 in New York City. His parents, Daniel and Dora, were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Poland. They lacked a formal education back in their home country, so they decided to move to America to get a good education. Jonas had two younger brothers named Herman and Lee. Once the family moved to America, they moved from East Harlem to the Bronx. When Jonas was 13, he entered into Townsend Harris High…

Polio Vaccine Polio Vaccine was found in 1953 by a doctor named Jonas Salk to cure the virus “Poliomyelitis”. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, causing muscle wasting, paralysis, and even death. Polio is caused by the poliovirus, a highly contagious virus specific to humans. The virus usually enters the environment in the feces of someone who is infected. From this outbreak, many people including children have suffered severe injuries. A 1916 polio…

also cause temporary or permanent damage to the body Polio disease can be found at any age but is commonly foJonas Salk was born October 28, 1914, and died on June 23, 1995 Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist Salk studied and graduated the New York University School of Medicine He was the first man to discover and develop the successful Polio vaccine Jonas Salk and his skilled team created the first Polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh, in the year of 1952 The…

spread. (Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly). This promotion of vaccines would be less common if it wasn’t for Jonas Salk’s scientific advancements that lead him to create the first dead vaccine for polio. This all started in college when Salk decided to study microbiology instead of law, which was what he originally intended to major in. Eventually Salk earned his medical degree in 1939 (Salk, Jonas (1914-1995)). His studies in college were only the beginning of his pursuit of scientific knowledge…

by polio vaccine. This disease killed over thirteen hundred Americans and a large percentage were children. In the year 1954, this virus infected about 18,000 children. After extensive research, President Dwight D. Eisenhower became aware of Dr. Jonas Salk who on April 12, 1955, had developed a vaccine against the frightening disease. President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote a speech on the information recorded by James C. Hagerty, the White House Press Secretary. This speech was directed to the…

Polio? Rather say dinosaurs. It is scary, dangerous, and extinct. What is this disease? Why only the parents of new born sweat for its vaccine for the tiny citizens of the Earth if it is eradicated? You are one of the two. One who knows about the polio because you lived in the time when it showed its colors and shook the world or that you are the one whose parents knows well enough, thus your body already bears the ‘protection’ and therefore vaccine. Let’s tell more than your queries about…

progressed as time passed, and what the individuals who dedicated their lives to the study of said disease, did to terminate it. The rivalry between Albert Sabin who was “a long-time polio researcher at the University of Cincinnati” (Oshinsky 6) and Jonas Salk, “a relative newcomer at the University of Pittsburgh” (Oshinsky 6), was what I believed was the most significant item raised in the book. While they were only brought up in the introduction, their names were repeated as I continued the…

Vaccines are one of the greatest medical achievements in the history. Diseases like smallpox, polio, and whooping cough where once common and now are rarely seen. Vaccinations stop the spread of disease and should be mandatory. Smallpox is a disease caused by the varoil virus. The most common is a rash that covers the face arms and legs that will soon turn to blisters. In severe cases blisters form around the eyelids and cause blindness. According to the World Health Organization smallpox has a…