Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis or 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…

There was a deadly disease that was sweeping across America in the 1950’s. This disease was known as poliomyelitis or polio. Polio or poliomyelitis is a virus that may cause paralysis and is preventable by polio vaccine. This disease killed over thirteen hundred Americans and a large percentage were children. In the year 1954, this virus infected about 18,000 children. After extensive research, President Dwight D. Eisenhower became aware of Dr. Jonas Salk who on April 12, 1955, had developed a…

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,…

Jonas Salk Have you ever wanted to know what it was liked making a difference in the world. “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more” This was one of Jonas Salk's famous quotes. He was born October 28,1914 and after many years for what 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…

“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…

When’s the last time you’ve met someone with polio? How about measles, mumps, or rubella? Chances are, in all likelihood, you haven’t. Polio was once a global terror, even in the United States. In the timeframe from the 1940’s to the 1950’s, the viral disease infected, on average, over 35,000 people each year in the United States. Polio caused widespread panic and was one of the most feared diseases that our country has ever known. People were afraid to travel, people were quarantined, and…

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…

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…

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…

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…