50,000 people died of polio.
250,000 people have died from Polio
250,000 people have died from Polio
where are the officical records of children who caught polio back before 1954 ? Because my beloved grandma died of it and I wanna no what happened to her.
(World War 2 1939-1945) In this time period, there was an epidemic of influenza from 1940-1941 in the United States. Also, there was an outbreak of polio immediately after the war, from about 1945-1949.
Polio and permanent paralysis
No, he died of old age.
At itâ??s time (prior to 1955), Polio was a major childhood disease and a major killer and crippler of young people. In 1950 alone ,3,145 deaths were reported with more than 57,628 cases reported. Although the virus had been extant for millennia, it only reached epidemic stages in the 20th century.
The immediate cause was a cerebral hemorrhage. However he had been in declining health for some time before that, probably due to the fact that he suffered from polio and was under enormous stress from leading the country through WWII.
She Died of Polio
Although it does not receive much attention today, the most well-known epidemic of the 1950s was Polio. It affected many people as it swept across America. The polio epidemic reached its peak in the 1950s. The cases of Paralytic Polio went from 33,000 in 1950 to 59,000 in 1952. In 1950, 34,000 people died of tuberculosis, and in 1957, 62,000 people died from influenza.
A polio vaccine was invented in 1954. Each year after that, the number of polio cases decreased. By 1974, only 5 cases occurred. These were all people who were linked to the polio vaccine.
The inventor of one of the forms of the Polio vaccine, Dr. Salk was born in New York City and died 1995 due to heart failure.