Poliomyelitis

Critical Test In the year 1988, there 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…

Abansado Principles of Health Science B1 Mrs. Jackson 25 October 2015 Jonas Salk 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…

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…

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 poliomyelitis. History of Polio: It was 1789 when Polio was first discovered by Michael Underwood, although Nation Museum of American History states, “1894, first outbreak of polio in epidemic form in the U.S. occurs in Vermont, with 132 cases.” Not…

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…

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.…

Success and failure are common encounters that many people face and it should not be a stopping point for one to continue to achieve a goal. While many American icons come face to face with this conflict, the end result is a person, an icon that has made a positive impact on their surroundings, which their struggles are often overlooked. Although they may hit a few bumps along the way, the end result of their achievement is what is left to be discussed all over the world. Jonas Salk is one of…

Organization took the vaccine to the ends of the earth and “eliminated smallpox worldwide”. Jenner’s findings in his vaccine with smallpox sparked interest in scientists all over. Doctor Jonas Salk and Doctor Albert Sabin had a competition with poliomyelitis, or polio, to see who could find the cure. In Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Medical Breakthroughs That Changed the World by Sherly Ann Persson, researcher and former nurse, wrote in her book that polio is very transmittable from…

Although he is a prominent figure in the history of Pittsburgh, the life of Jonas Edward Salk did not begin in Pittsburgh. Jonas Salk, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States was born on October 28, 1914 in New York City. It was in New York City that he became the first member of his family to attend college by attending New York University and earning his medical degree in 1939. The next stop on Jonas Salk’s journey to Pittsburgh was at the University of Michigan. At the…

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…