Polio

containing nerve cell bodies, which can 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…

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…

he did died June 23, 1995.He was famous for making a Polio Vaccine that cured many people. This man could have credit for having one of america's greatest accomplishments. That accomplishment is that he made the polio vaccine for the U.S which he made in and started to go down in 1955 by 1965 the numbers only had dropped down too only 61 people in the U.S. He also made the oral vaccine which he did 1961 by then the number of people with polio dropped by a lot. Before he made in 1960…

Polio Vaccine Polio Vaccine was found in 1953 by a doctor named Jonas Salk to cure the virus “Poliomyelitis”. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, causing muscle wasting, paralysis, and even death. Polio is caused by the poliovirus, a highly contagious virus specific to humans. The virus usually enters the environment in the feces of someone who is infected. From this outbreak, many people including children have suffered severe injuries. A 1916 polio…

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…

The 1958 polio outbreak alone killed 3,145 Americans and paralyzed 21,269 others. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, an average of 35,000 polio cases were reported annually. Across the country, Americans lived in fear of the terrible disease. Then, in 1955, the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was introduced. By 1957, the number of polio cases reported dropped to below 2,500. In a moment of scientific and national triumph, the disease was declared eradicated in the United States in 1979. Yet,…

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…

Polio Vaccination Carly Spencer Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis otherwise known as “Polio” is an infectious viral disease that affects the nervous system and can cause “paralysis” (paralyzation) or death if left uncured. There are three different types of the disease - Paralytic, Nonparalytic and Sub-Clinical. Types of Polio Infections Paralytic - the rarest and most serious type of Polio - which is the highest chance to leading to full or partial paralysis. There are also three…

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…

One person who made a very big impact on American society, and many other countries around the world, is Jonas E. Salk, who created the world’s first successful polio vaccine. With polio being such a large problem during Salk’s prime in the 1940’s and 1950’s, the vaccination made him a huge success story. Not only have Salk and his polio vaccine improved the lives of millions of American children and adults by freeing them of paralyzation, many fever-like symptoms, and even death, but they have…