Polio

Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States during most years of the Great Depression, was a victim of poliomyelitis. The stock market crashed in 1929, during the Hoover administration; Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, took the oath of office in 1933, and was president through 1945, when he died in office. The Great Depression lasted until the early 1940s. FDR was. therefore, the major political figure during the depression years. And FDR was a victim of polio (called at that time "infantile paralysis"). Although there have been publications detailing the ways in which the press hid FDR's affliction and handicap from the public, my family, my friends, and I knew quite well that he had had the illness: to us it was widespread public knowledge. Movie newsreels showed FDR in his Warm Springs retreat, swimming for exercise, to relieve the symptoms of polio. News reports raved about the popular but controversial treatment of polio's aftereffects, devised by Sister Elizabeth Kinney, who had caught FDR's attention and whose treatment approach he adopted and advocated. The fear of polio affected the public's mindset fiercely: children were forbidden to swim in public pools, in still-water lakes, or even in the ocean. (FDR had contracted the disease in an ocean swim.) "Polio" was the fear in those days equivalent to the fear of child molesting these days: people saw it lurking everywhere. One positive effect of that fear and ofthe intense, long-standing publicity was the successful drive to find a vaccination against poliomyelitis.

Polio is caused by the Poliomyelitis virus.

Franklin D Roosevelt was 39 when he was diagnosed with polio, though a few years back it was suggested he was suffering from Guillain-Barre Syndrome rather than polio.

There are still countries where polio is endemic. examples are Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Niger and Afghanistan

diarrhea, dysentry, typhoid, polio, cholera, malaria,

Jonas salk

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.

Polio virus causes poliomyelitis.

Poliomyelitis,is a viraly transmitted disease ,usually transmitted in contaminated water or food,which leads to paraysis of the limb or respiratory system,and often leads to death.

No, he developed a vaccine for smallpox, back in 1796. But his successful experiments led to other vaccines long after he died, including the polio vaccine, which is usually credited to Jonas Salk-- he announced it in 1953.

Wilma Rudolph had polio but she also ran track with polio.

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The curvature could be caused by one of a couple of problems: 1. Most-likely: there could be residual nerve damage to some of the abdominal & back muscles, leaving him leaning toward the affected side. 2. Less-likely: He could have curvature of the spine as a defect known as "Scoliosis". Approximately 2-3% of births have this defect, and the degree of curvature varies from nothing to worry about, to someone requiring aggressive treatment such as braces. If braces don't work, surgical fusion of the spinal vertebra and placement of titanium rods placed along the spine to brace it while the fusion occurs is done. This occurs is while the patient is fairly young (late teens) and if the curvature of the spine is 40-50 degrees, or more...... You can Google SCOLIOSIS to see more about this subject... I hope you can get him some evaluation & treatment, especially while he is (hopefully) still young... Even if the problem is from residual nerve damage, braces might help him function better in society.

it was spread by airborne viruses sneezing coughing and by poor hygiene

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Polio is still in: India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria

Jonas Salk was born on October 28, 1914 and died on June 23, 1995. Jonas Salk would have been 80 years old at the time of death or 100 years old today.

destruction of the anterior horn (Motor Nerve) of the spinal cord. The nerve cells can not regenerate.

Before the vaccines were invented, beginning in 1952, many polio victims continued their lives crippled, lived in iron lungs because their respiratory systems were paralyzed, or died. Many went through excruciating physical therapy and some were able to recover from the paralysis. Others were like President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was stricken by polio in the early 1920's and wore 7 pound steel leg braces, used crutches, and was confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.

Today, the vaccines prevent it from becoming widespread in may parts of the world.

The Sabin vaccine was given by mouth because it was a live attenuated virus vaccine. Such vaccines have to actually infect you and grow for a short period of time, it could do this by mouth.

Wilma Rudolph won three medals at the track and field event, even though she had a leg problem.

Alexander Graham Bell

Polio is one of those diseases that are as old as man. But the first scientific/medical description of it took place in 1789 by British physician Michael Underwood. He was the first to describe it in a clinical setting.