Polio

epidemic in the years between 1916 and 1952, which was the peak of the epidemic (Petersen). Polio, as it is more commonly known, caused a great deal of pain, fear, and heartache for these people. It did, however, lead Jonas Salk to create a vaccine that would change the developed world forever. Polio cause Salk to be able to use different methods and large tests to take a bounding leap in vaccine research. Polio is an infectious disease that is contracted by exposure to infected fecal matter as…

virus that were grown in monkey tissues. The virus was inactivated by adding formalin. It also has IgG-mediated immunity once it is in the blood so that it does not progress and cause damage to neurons. The attenuated vaccine, also known as the oral polio vaccine (OPV), was made by the passage of the virus through non-human cells at certain temperatures to induce spontaneous mutations. There were multiple versions of the vaccine, but Sabin’s proved to be the safest and most effective. The IPV is…

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…

Polio When the topic polio is brought up, most people have very little knowledge about it. Some have heard that Franklin D. Roosevelt had it. Some even know that you can be paralyzed from. But, most only know the basic facts. Polio was a disease that spread all through the United States in the 1950s and 1960s crippling, paralyzing, and killing many people and also played a role in many novels including Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, The Big Dipper Marathon by Jerome Brooks, and Close to Home by…

Poliovirus was one of the most deadly viruses in the world. 25 years ago, polio was a disease in 125 countries and paralyzed and killed up to 350,000 people. The body system that is affected most by polio is the central nervous system. The virus Poliovirus Poliovirus enters your body through the mouth, and then eventually makes its way into the blood and central nervous system, where it will affect nerve tissue where it causes paralysis and wasting of muscle tissue. The virus can be prevented…

DTap, IPV, MMR, and Varicella. Each vaccine prevents viruses that America has had a struggle with in the past. The vaccine with quite possibly the most history would be IPV which was invented by Jonas Salk and prevents Polio. In the early 1950’s much of America feared the Polio virus as it caused detrimental damage to the body and handicapped many children. A prime example of just how harmful the virus is would be none other than America’s 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt…

Polio or poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. Polio can cause temporary or permanent paralysis. Polio is a crippling disease that is feared all over the world. It is feared by so many people because in 1952 3,145 people, including 1,873 children in the United States died from this horrible disease. People all over the world were feared that they would end up getting the disease, as well. Although…

better known as Polio is a viral and infectious disease that is to affect mainly the central nervous system, and can also cause temporary or permanent damage to the body Polio disease can be found at any age but is commonly foJonas Salk was born October 28, 1914, and died on June 23, 1995 Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist Salk studied and graduated the New York University School of Medicine He was the first man to discover and develop the successful Polio vaccine Jonas…

Polio? Rather say dinosaurs. It is scary, dangerous, and extinct. What is this disease? Why only the parents of new born sweat for its vaccine for the tiny citizens of the Earth if it is eradicated? You are one of the two. One who knows about the polio because you lived in the time when it showed its colors and shook the world or that you are the one whose parents knows well enough, thus your body already bears the ‘protection’ and therefore vaccine. Let’s tell more than your queries about…

Caregivers about Oral Polio Vaccination in northern Nigeria" Research Questions 1. What are the reasons for vaccine refusal and high increase in non-compliance in changing epidemiology of the virus by Care givers and Parents after Nigeria was declared to have ‘interrupted’ poliomyelitis? 2. Why do Caregivers and Parents change their belief or perspective from a previously vaccine accepted population to a vaccine refusal population post-polio interruption phase? 3. How can the polio programme be…