Polio vaccine

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…

What makes them mandatory is due to the amount of forign vistitor that bring various pathogens into the U.S. from their homes. For years, Polio was a mandatory immunization. So why would the Polio vaccination be mandatory if it’s not common in the United states. That is all because vaccines are what keep these dieases from even popping up in the country. Vacinations have prevented disease from even starting, and will continue to do so unless they were made a choice…

wondering what the purpose of vaccines are, it’s paramount to recall what they’re protecting us against and buying into the fearmongering surrounding them. In the United States, we have the luxury of vaccines that are readily available to the public, yet increasingly and with more frequency, people are turning them down. There has been a resurgence in childhood communicable diseases that were close to being snuffed out. As parents decide to delay or opt out of the recommended vaccine schedules…

A study was conducted by Bandim Health Project (BHP). The main purpose of this experiment was to compare overall morality between infants given BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine used for tuberculosis and infants given both BCG and OPV0 (Oral Polio Vaccine). To see if given orally if it improves their chances of living or decreases them. They initially started with the hypothesis that administering both of these drugs would not be good for the infants. 7012 children…

In 1954 there were 38476 cases of reported polio in the United States in the same year a mass trial of the polio vaccine began with over 1.3 million children participating in the trial (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2016). Six years later the vaccine was licensed for use and then five years after that the reported cases had dropped to only 72 (Post-Polio Health International, 2008). The first ever vaccination is often attributed to Edward Jenner in 1796 when he noticed that if…

man who created the polio vaccine, was a medical researcher. His invention of the polio vaccine impacted the medical world. His vaccine was not the only one that had a major impact in the medical world. There were a lot of different vaccines, but the vaccine that cured polio was called “Inactivated polio vaccine.” Polio was one of the nation’s most life-threatening and harmful diseases of the Twentieth Century. The vaccine that cured polio saved many lives, mostly kids. Today polio is that…

Polio Poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, is a highly contagious disease. It dates all the way back to the 1700s. Almost 300 years later, polio is 99% globally eradicated. Polio wreaked havoc throughout the world during the 1900s. It can cause total muscle paralysis and even death. Polio can attack at any age, but those under age 5 are most vulnerable to the disease. Michael Underwood, a British physician, wrote the first clinical description of polio in 1789. There is evidence dating…

Poliomyelitis, better known as the polio virus, is a crippling, and potentially, deadly disease that spreads from person to person. This disease is very contagious, and only infects humans. The virus consists of a RNA genome enclosed in a protein shell called a capsid. There are three serotypes of wild poliovirus have slightly different capsid proteins. In 1789, British physician, Michael Underwood, provided the first clinical description of the poliovirus. He provided a stat, that stated 72…

Polio: An American Story is about the journey of the poliovirus and how they came to find the cure. The thesis is stated clearly in the introduction of this book. Oshinsky talks about how the feud between Salk and Sabin was continuous, and that the debate is still ongoing on weather Salk or Sabin made the better vaccine for this virus. He then ends with saying “What is certain, however, is that the polio crusade that consumed them remains one of the most significant and culturally revealing…

A crippling infectious disease that’s produced by a virus, named polio (poliomyelitis), originally named “infantile paralysis” or “the crippler,” because of its ability to damage nerve cells and control muscles permanently, made its primary epidemic in Canada in1910 (The Story of Polio). This illness can affect humans of any age, however kids who are below the age of five are at higher risk than others. This disease first became known when a young girl had been taken to a hospital in Hamilton,…