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Polio
Polio or more correctly Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus which attacks the nervous system. This category is for questions about the disease, its history, its symptoms, its treatments, the vaccine created to combat/eradicate it and the continuing studies of not only the virus,and its treatment, but its sociological impact and the people who survived it.
489 Questions
Who invented the polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk developed an inactivated virus polio vaccine in 1952 that was first used on people in 1955. Albert Sabin developed a live vaccine in 1958. It was the Sabin vaccine that was used to eliminate Polio around the world, but it was then removed from service because of its higher rate of induced disease.
What is a good title for vaccines for polio?
The polio vaccine is called the Salk vaccine after it was invented by Dr Jonas Salk.
Is polio and poliomyelitis the same thing?
Yes it is. Poliomyelitis is the scientific name for polio. Is poliomyelitis the same thing as polio?
What major achievement in public health was widely celebrated in the 1950's?
Polio vaccine was one of the great public health developments of the 1950s.
The infant will develop artificially acquired active immunity
What is the icd9 code for post polio syndrome?
post-polio syndrome ICD9-138 Dr. Richard L. Bruno Chairperson International Post-Polio Task Force and Director The Post-Polio Institute and International Centre for Post-Polio Education and Research and Fatigue Management Programs Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Englewood, New Jersey U.S.A. 07631 Phone: (201) 894-3724 Toll Free: 1-877-POST-POLIO Fax: (201) 541-6491 POSTPOLIOINFO@AOL.COM Click on "Post-Polio Letter" at http://www.postpolioinfo.com for The Post-Polio Letter, the PPS Library and all of our papers describing our research and treatment of PPS and CFS/ME and http://newmobility.com/polio.cfm for New Mobility's Post-Polio Forum for more PPS information.
Which track and field star overcame childhood polio to become one the greatest athletes of her time?
Wilma Rudolph
This question seems to be from a unit about Henrietta Lacks' cells.
There are many polio viruses that have no effect on humans. Her cells (HeLa) allowed the growth of polio viruses and made it possible to determine which strain produced the devastating effects. When that was determined, the vaccine could be made.
Vaccines are not limited to viruses. Some of the bacterial diseases for which there are vaccines include: tuberculosis, meningitis, tetanus, whooping cough, typhoid, cholera, anthrax, etc.
What is a poliomyelitis antigen?
Poliomyelitis antigen is a complex compound on the surface of the virus.
Where was the polio vaccine invented?
The first ever polio vaccine was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh in the early 1950s. It was a killed vaccine that was tested in clinical trials in 1954 and ultimately gained government approval by 1955 for use on the general public.
There is also another polio vaccine that was developed by Dr. Albert Sabin. This vaccine was a live version of the polio virus and is taken orally. It was approved for use in the general public in 1963.
Can the polio vaccine cure polio?
No, there is no antibiotic that will get rid of the polio germs but there is a vaccine that I would strongly recommend getting. However, the vaccine will not cure the Polio when you have it, it will prevent you getting Polio again.
How do you distinguish Aids virus from the Polio virus?
"AIDS virus" is HIV, Human Immunodeficiency virus. It causes AIDS, Auto-immunodeficiency syndrome.
HIV is a retrovirus because it uses reverse transcriptase in replication.
Polio is a picornavirus.
Both have RNA genomes, and positive sense.
They are also both icosahedron shaped.
HIV is much bigger: 100 diameter, rather than 30 which is polio.
How effective was Jonas Salk's initial testing of the polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk's initial testing of polio vaccine is 60 - 70% effective against PV1 (poliovirus type 1, over 90% effective against PV2 and PV3, and 94% effective against the development of bulbar polio.
Poliomyelitis as two vaccines: Jonas Salk developed the first in 1952 and used first in 1955. This vaccine used an inactive virus. Albert Sabin developed an attenuated vaccine which was available in 1962. The Salk vaccine was given by injection and the Sabin by mouth. There is no cure.
Did Jonas salk get a divorce to Donna Lindsay?
Yes, in the book he divorced her in 1967 and then he married artist Francoise Gilot in 1970.
Why is polio vaccine taken orally?
Polio is caused by a virus that is ingested via the mouth and then infects the gut. It makes sense to use a vaccine that is administered the same way.
We used a weakened strain of the polio virus that was administered orally for years. It has a lot of advantages to the inject-able vaccine but when the disease became so rare in the western world that most of the cases may have been related to the vaccine itself it made sense to switch to the injection.
