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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.
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What is the infectious agent that causes polio?
Poliomyelitis is caused by one of the three polioviruses.
Write a note on pulse polio immunizations programme?
Polio immunization programme is a global campaign whose main aim is to kick polio out of the world. Children under the age of 5 are usually vaccinated every year.
What is the name of polio virus?
The name of the Polio Virus is simply Poliovirus. It causes Poliomyelitis, commonly know as "Polio".
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There are three types of polio virus found ....
TYPE 1 also known as BRUNHILDE & MA HONEY
TYPE 2 also known as LANCING & MEFI
TYPE 3 also known as LEON & SAUKETT
Why polio is the most spreading disease during the great depression?
Probably because there was no vaccine for polio until the 1950s. I remember getting my shot at school from the bulk processor they used to call school clinic. I don't know what caused polio, and to be honest I would have thought that something like Ricketts from a lack of nourishing food and milk would have been more a 1930s thing. I also read a lot about kids from the dustbowl states literally filling their lungs with dirt and dropping dead where they stood from it. I'm sure there was plenty of misery, and polio was probably only a part of it. Phil
Is polio caused by airborne pathogens?
No. Transmission is primarily via the fecal-oral route as the virus is excreted in an infected person's feces; good hand-washing habits can help prevent the spread of infection.
How long does it take to develop post polio syndrome?
Post-polio syndrome occurs some decades after the original infection with polio.
Was the polio vaccine mandatory by law?
Although the March of Dimes campaign resulted in vaccination of the masses, I can find no evidence to support that it was mandated by law in the 1950s and 60s. Currently there is discussion of mandating its use by law in countries in which poliomyelitis still occurs.
How many lives does polio vaccine save each year?
Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat poliomyelitis (or polio). The first was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952. Announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955, it consists of an injected dose of inactivated (dead) poliovirus. An oral vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin using attenuated poliovirus. Human trials of Sabin's vaccine began in 1957 and it was licensed in 1962.[1]Because there is no long term carrier state for poliovirus in immunocompetent individuals, polioviruses have no non-primate reservoir in nature, and survival of the virus in the environment for an extended period of time appears to be remote. Therefore, interruption of person-to person transmission of the virus by vaccination is the critical step in global polio eradication.[2] The two vaccines have eradicated polio from most countries in the world,[3][4] and reduced the worldwide incidence from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to 1,652 cases in 2007.[5][6][7]
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What was jonas salk famous for?
Jonas Salk was a famous American researcher and virologist. He was best known for his polio vaccine. Until this vaccine was introduced polio was the widespread epidemic with most of its victims being children.
Polio is a virus which occurs spontaneously in nature. Now, the vaccines for polio were first made by Salk and then Sabin.
What is the risk for polio in the us?
Unlikely, there is now a vaccine for polio and now polio has become weakened to a point where people who have may not experience all the severe symptoms as when the outbreak hit. for example: polio would cause lung failure in the time of the outbreak but now it is very uncommon to see in polio patients. Just take the vaccine and you'll be safe.
Is polio vaccine worth the money spent?
Yes, yes, and yes. Would you take a drug to cure AIDS? Or Shingles? Ask anyone who knows someone who had polio at one time. They have post Polio syndrome. They will tell you that they wish they had had polio vaccine then when they got polio.
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disease caused by a virus that attacks the human nervous system. ... Polio is spread via person-to-person contact or in an oral-fecal manner, meaning people contract the poliovirus when they come into contact with infected mucus, phlegm, feces, or contaminated food/water (Perlstein, 2012).
Type 1 is the most common of the 3 Polioviruses that causes the Polio disease.
To fight polio you have to be happy.you also need a good health.
Polio, short for poliomyelitis, has been known since prehistoric times. The name "poliomyelitis" was applied to it at the end of the 19th century.
