Polio vaccine

Salk even had the nerve and was brave enough to test his new vaccine on his family. He was certain that it was ready for use, “It is nearly certain that Salk’s success can be largely credited to his unwavering belief that his vaccine would work” (Pallansch 4). Polio has affected the public worldwide, but because of Salk’s confident remark and development, the vaccine has become issued to millions of patients, where most too all survived the fatal virus, making him…

When’s the last time you’ve met someone with polio? How about measles, mumps, or rubella? Chances are, in all likelihood, you haven’t. Polio was once a global terror, even in the United States. In the timeframe from the 1940’s to the 1950’s, the viral disease infected, on average, over 35,000 people each year in the United States. Polio caused widespread panic and was one of the most feared diseases that our country has ever known. People were afraid to travel, people were quarantined, and…

In discussions of animal testing, one controversial issue has been whether animals can feel emotions as humans do, and furthermore, if they can then is the use of animals in research morally wrong? On the one hand, scientists that use animals as test subjects, such as Helosia Sabin and her late husband, argue that it is crucial for any medical progress because much testing is required before releasing a new drug into the public. On the other hand, people like Peggy Carlson, a scientist herself…

fellowship that had the goal of creating an influenza vaccine. While here, he was lucky to reconnect with a friend and mentor from New York University, Thomas Francis Jr, who was instrumental in teaching…

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…

Etiology: Poliomyelitis aka Polio, is a crippling and potentially death causing disease caused by the Poliovirus. Polio contains RNA and has three types of serotypes. The virus can spread in so many ways. By contact by infected feces, contact with phlegm/mucus from the nose or mouth, or by person to person contact. It starts with entering through the mouth and nose, replicates and spreads in throat and gastrointestinal tract. Then potentially gets absorbed and disbursed out into the blood and to…

Drawing negative comparisons between science and religion we can say both have created war, starvation, and even disease in societies. germ warfare, atomic weapons, and toxic GMO foods is the flip side of the coin. So, to trust science blindly because we need an alternative to religion is not a good either, we must find a balance. Science like religion is a way of understanding the world around us and how it operates. Science has given us definitive answers and truths about our world such as…

World Health Assembly passed a historic resolution pledging to make the world polio-free. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) headed by national governments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA), UNICEF, Rotary International and WHO was launched as a consequence. The initiative is supported by key partners including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation1. The GPEI target was to eradicate polio from the world by year 2000. The last cases of wild poliovirus (WPV) were…

Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly contagious disease caused by a poliovirus. There are three types, or serotypes, of poliovirus: P1, P2, and P3. All three types can cause infection and are considered paralytogenic. Before the development of the polio vaccine, the disease had worldwide occurrence. Humans, particularly children are the identified reservoir for the virus and can be transmitted through direct and indirect contact with respiratory discharges and feces. However, the…

Polio is a viral sickness that is contagious, and it is caused by one of the polioviruses. In most cases, polio is mild but some do have paralytic polio. Polio has likely been around for thousands of years. There is an Egyptian carving dating back to 1400 B.C., depicting of a boy with a leg deformity like the one someone with Polio would have. Polio was low level until the 1900s. Polio started being epidemic when other illness like typhoid and tuberculous started declining. Scientist believe…