Polio vaccine

Polio is a disease that causes muscular dystrophy and affects nerves that could lead to partial or full paralysis. A basic understanding is not necessarily needed because I chose to focus this paper more on the prevention and detection of polio rather than what polio is. Though I felt it important that those reading this should understand to a certain degree what this disease is. Now as for what I researched, I started with the detection element. My first article was about the detection of the…

and more parents are saying no to vaccines. Illnesses that are very rare right now, that most parents don’t have to fear...” Vaccines have been used for decades, and have continued to change and advance as the scientific field has gained more knowledge on defeating a multitude of diseases and sicknesses. The question is how are vaccines affecting a community? Some of the most well-known diseases with elaborate vaccines well ahead of their time are smallpox, and polio, which helped shape the…

Poliomyelitis, also known as Polio, is an infectious disease caused by the polio virus. This disease can spread from person to person and can invade an infected person’s brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis. Symptoms are seen rarely for this illness, but if seen it’s usually flu like symptoms. There are three types of polio, sub-clinical, paralytic, and nonparalytic. Young children, pregnant women, and people with low immunity are more susceptible to this disease. This disease spreads from…

Poliomyelitis is an infectious and deadly disease that can spread through human contact. It can infect the victim's brain and spinal cord, which causes paralysis. Common symptoms of polio are: Sore throat, fever, tiredness, nausea, headache, and stomach pains. These symptoms can last for 2-5 days, then they go away on their own. Few people who have the poliovirus contract more serious symptoms that can affect the brain and the spinal cord. The more serious symptoms are: paresthesia (tingling,…

responsibility of making life-shaping decisions in issues such as education and healthcare for their children. The growing skepticism against vaccines and the healthcare industry is worrying because it can potentially cause preventable deaths. In this paper, I will be responding to Sarah Pope’s entry in The Healthy Home Economist where she argued against vaccines. Pope established her family’s medical background to show that her claims are not unfounded. It is ironic that she used this to reel…

importance of immunization for the general public. Cloos and Davidson list the most common illnesses and diseases that people are susceptible to, and how the respective vaccines prevent and combat these viruses. They provide support as to why the public should vaccinate themselves, as well as their children. • Cloos first defines what a vaccine is, stating that “immunization is the process that makes an individual no longer susceptible to a specific infection. Vaccination is the injection or…

The slogan, “Hug me! I’m vaccinated,” was formed to encourage more people to get vaccines so diseases that can be avoided aren’t unnecessarily 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…

Imagine a world without medicine. Imagine the population of the world drop abnormally. The world will suffer without the use of medicines or antibiotics. But how are medicines created? The creation of medicines involves complex chemical reactions. But what makes a medicine safe to humans? A simple answer to this question would be animal testing. Testing a medicine on an animal to identify its symptoms or side-effects would be an effective solution. Some animals and human’s DNA are extremely…

were 350,000 cases of Polio. In 2012, there were only 223 (“Poliomyelitis). This large decrease in the number of cases of Poliomyelitis is due largely to the efforts of research scientists and the development of vaccines and the improvement of those vaccines. Perhaps just as important as the scientists in this case are the animal subjects in the testing. Animal testing in the scientific arena is vital to the successful discovery of new vaccines, the improvement of old vaccines, development…

“From 1923 to 1953 before the vaccine was introduces the polio death rate in the united states and England had already declines on its own by 47 to 55 percent. From 1953 when the dead vaccine was introduced, to 1963 when the live vaccine was introduced the death rate decreased from 55 to 20 percent in the united states in ten years. The death rate of the disease decreased thirty five percent in ten years after a vaccine was introduced, whereas it decreased forty five percent in twenty years…