Polio vaccine

You see,polio or poliomyelitis is a serious disease that affects the nerves of the spine and often makes a person permanently crippled,the virus originated from the poliovirus in 1894,the first outbreak of polio in epidemic formed in the U.S. occurred in vermont with 132 cases.But the first actually polio infected human was discovered in Europe in the 20th century.Also polio is contracted by poor sanitation areas and the virus easily spreads through the fecal-oral route also by contaminated…

Immanuel History Project Polio was a shocking disease in the 1960, affecting large numbers of the population. What changes has the vaccine had upon Australian society? “The highest recorded incidence of poliomyelitis in the country Australia was 39.1 per 100,000 population was in 1938”- http://www.ncirs.edu.au/immunisation/fact-sheets/polio-fact-sheet.pdf. Polio was a highly contagious virus that entered the body through the mouth. The virus spread across Australia taking the lives of many…

Polio Vaccination in the United States Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) is the only form of polio prevention used in the United States. Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) is another form of polio prevention, used in other countries. Patients who are administered OPV are at risk of vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) due to exposure to the live virus. In 1996, prior to IPV being the only form of polio vaccination in the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)…

The disease I have chosen to research is the polio virus. The full name is poliomyelitis. The name comes from a Greek origin meaning, gray and marrow which refer to the spinal cord, and –itis which means inflammation. This disease was a major fear in the early 20th century. There are two major different types of the disease which I will discuss further in this paper. One of the two I will discuss is broken down into three different categories. I will go further into depth with all of the types.…

The focus of this biography is to tell the life of Jonas Salk. Jonas Salk was an American bacteriologist, physician and virologist who is best known for researching on Poliomyelitis, also known popularly as polio. He is also widely known for developing the first successful vaccine for polio. The biography contains the scientist’s early life, time of his adulthood, what he has done for the society until the time when he grows old and pass away. Jonas Edward Salk was born October 28, 1914 in…

Poliomyelitis, otherwise know as polio, is the effect on the spinal cord that leads to the classic manifestation of paralysis. There are 3 stereotypes of polio each extremely different from the other and an immunity to one doesn’t mean you have an immunity to the other 2 and during Jonas’s time polio was a big deal and many people were working on trying to solve it. He worked on his vaccine for a long time and after he discovered a way to use an inactivated form…

Vaccines are widely known as one of the most prominent, public health mechanisms ever invented. Despite the popular belief that vaccines are extremely beneficial for children that receive them, anti-vaccinationists claim that some vaccines correlate with the neurological disorder autism. There have been two controversial claims trying to relate childhood vaccinations to autism. Both claims presented can seem convincing at first but can easily be found falsifiable upon research. To fully…

from living a long and full life; Polio was a disease that ravaged the world for decades, maybe even centuries. Jonas Edward Salk, an American medical researcher and virologist at the New York University School of Medicine, discovered and developed a vaccine to stop this virus’ terrifying rampage. The vaccine was a weapon against the polio virus and aside from giving rise to The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the creation of the Poliomyelitis vaccine benefitted the economy by saving…

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…

He also was not able to move his legs at all. Although he was unaware, FDR actually had polio weeks before this, “A crippling viral disease that would leave him paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life.” His family was adjusting to the fact that this was serious. A noted specialist in infantile paralysis, Dr. Robert Lovett brought him in to do an examination. He came to a verdict that he had polio. This was a big problem for Franklin and his wife, Eleanor. His family went back to…