Jonas Salk

When people are concerned about others to risk their lives for us it shows that they care about others than themselves. For example, the military that go head first into action to protect us and the country that we live in. Another example are the doctors that try to cure diseases, but at the same time they risk their own health and sometimes their own lives to cure the sick people. The military risk their lives every day for our sake one of the perfect examples that I know is sargant Ridges…

lead to permanent paralyzation in the body. Countless individuals have been paralyzed or have died from the disease. Finally in the 1950s, after numerous clinical trials, Jonas Salk created a vaccine to combat polio. The vaccine, which was offered either orally or from an injection, successfully was able to prevent the…

international vaccination programs, such as the World Health Organization took the vaccine to the ends of the earth and “eliminated smallpox worldwide”. Jenner’s findings in his vaccine with smallpox sparked interest in scientists all over. Doctor Jonas Salk and Doctor Albert Sabin had a competition with poliomyelitis, or polio, to see who could find the cure. In Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Medical Breakthroughs That Changed the World by Sherly Ann Persson, researcher and former nurse,…

younger than five, those who contract it will be left paralyzed and will die. Researchers started studying the disease trying to develop an effective vaccine. The first successful vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk, first tested in 1952, and announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955. The Salk vaccine, or inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), consists of an injected dose of killed poliovirus and the body will produce antibodies against polio. Right after many vaccines were produced and…

vitro fertilization. HeLa cells even went into space before astronauts to test how human cells would be affected in a different environment. But the most important thing resulting from HeLa cell research is the creation of the polio vaccine by Jonas Salk. Salk used HeLa cells to test the effectiveness of his vaccine by mixing HeLa cells, the polio virus, and an unvaccinated child 's blood in a test tube. The vaccine adds antibodies to the blood which prevent the virus from killing the cells. In…

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…

Henrietta Lacks was born 97 years ago on August 1, 1920 in Virginia. She was born into a very poor household and with 8 siblings. Henrietta’s mother, Eliza Pleasant, died when Henrietta was only 4 years of age during childbirth. After her mother’s unexpected death, her father moved the children to Clover, VA. Henrietta worked on her grandfather’s tobacco farm growing up. Henrietta at the age of 14 had her first child with her cousin, David. She later married David when she was 20 years old. The…

The video is about the polio disease and the fact that in 1921 the polio strike President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) at 39 years of age. The polio is also known as the infantile paralysis. The disease was highly contagious and hit Whyteville, Virginia in the summer of 1950 more than any other city in the country. People were hopeless, stores and theaters were closed and people isolated themselves to avoid the spreading of the disease. The disease usually strike children during the summer…

Vaccines have been one of the greatest advancements in the 20th century. The use of vaccinations has not only affected the United States, it has had a global effect. The annual global death rate from diseases has fallen from 600,000 in 2000 to to just 122,000 in 2012. The annual death rate has gone down by 79 percent (“Understanding Vaccines”). It is important to reserve all recommended vaccines so that the level of disease stays down. There are many vaccines that are recommended, each of…

It is no secret that recollections of historical events tend to be more romanticized than they may have actually occurred. Individual people commit this action on a daily basis when reminiscing upon an experience from the past. “In hindsight, people are often quick to invent explanations for unknown behaviors” (Burkus 27). This act of glamorizing personal memories is known as confabulation. In the second chapter of his book, David Burkus introduces what he calls the “Eureka Myth.” Burkus…