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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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How many victims of 1944 polio epidemic?
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.
What are symptoms of Poliomyelitis?
Polio is a very unique disease. There are a few main characteristics that are very important. Some of these are life lasting while others are temporary. You can experience headaches, fever, sore throat, vomiting, and neck and back stiffness. One other one, that is probably the most important, is probably that your legs or your arms become paralyzed for life, which is not good at all. That is talking about the effects of the disease, but if you were talking about the characteristics you would want to know this.
This virus usually effects people in summer months or in tropical climates. It is rapidly inactivated by cholrine, heat, and UV light. A really interesting thing about this virus is that 95% of all people who are infected by it do not develop Polio or the symptoms, but people who do not experience symptoms can still infect others.
What is the substance in polio vaccine that makes it effective?
Pieces (or synthetic pieces) of the disease causing organism called antigens that can be recognized by the immune system as something that does not belong in the body. This prompts the immune system to produce antibodies that recognize those antigens and attack them the next time they appear, typically when challenged by the real disease causing organism.
Who came up with the polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk came up with the first injectable polio vaccine, followed by Albert Sabin who came up with the first oral polio vaccine.
Is polio vaccine active or passive?
The Rabies vaccine is a killed vaccine & the first one should be given around 4-5 months of age. Don't forget about the other vaccines needed for your pet. Have your Veterinarian do a check up on your pet. I don't think they use "live" vaccines, only Modified Live or Killed.
There is no cure for polio, but polio prevention is available through a vaccine. Polio vaccine in the United States is given as an inactivated polio vaccine. Approximately 90 percent or more of polio vaccine recipients develop protective antibodies to all three polio virus types after two doses, and at least 99 percent are immune following three doses. With the continued success of polio vaccination programs, a cure for polio may be possible within the next decade.
Who found the cure for the flu?
the US military in the 1940's it was first used in the Second World War
How long has polio been around?
The exact date of the discovery of viruses is unknown. However, many scientists believe that viruses have been around for over 3. 8 billion years.
Can a parent who has had polio pass on abnormalities to their children?
Yes a parent who has had polio can pass on abnormalities to their children.
Did Jonas salk invent the vaccine for influenza?
No, Jonas Salk was not the only one that made a polio vaccine. Dr. Albert Sabin made one a few years after in 1963.
What is the physical description of the polio virus?
The mature virus has a bullet shape, a protein coat, and a lipid envelope. The outer surface of the virus is covered with thumblike glycoprotein projections 5-10 nm long and 3 nm in diameter. The virus averages approximately 780 nm in length.
Where can you find single doses of vaccines?
You can call various pharmacies and see if they have them available. Usually, they will only provide you with an injection from the single dose vial, rather than let you have the vial for self-administration, however. This may vary per state laws. Vaccine may be available as pre-loaded single dose syringes that you can get from your physician, if there is a need for you to have preservative free* vaccine, discuss this with your doctor and pharmacist for the best information about your area and state laws.
*Only single doses are preservative free
It is a VIRUS. Poliovirus, the causative agent of poliomyelitis, is a human enterovirus and member of the family of Picornaviridae.
Poliovirus is composed of an RNA genome and a protein capsid. The genome is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA genome that is about 7500 nucleotides long.[3] The viral particle is about 30 nanometres in diameter with icosahedral symmetry. Because of its short genome and its simple composition-only RNA and a non-enveloped icosahedral protein coat that encapsulates it-poliovirus is widely regarded as the simplest significant virus.[4]
Poliovirus was first isolated in 1909 by Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper.[5] In 1981, the poliovirus genome was published by two different teams of researchers- by Vincent Racaniello and David Baltimore at MIT[6] and by Naomi Kitamura and others at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.[7] Poliovirus is one of the most well-characterized viruses, and has become a useful model system for understanding the biology of RNA viruses.
Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route.[1] The term derives from the Greek poliós (πολιός), meaning "grey", myelós (µυελός), referring to the "spinal cord", and the suffix -itis, which denotes inflammation.[2]
Although around 90% of polio infections cause no symptoms at all, affected individuals can exhibit a range of symptoms if the virus enters the blood stream.[3] In about 1% of cases the virus enters the central nervous system, preferentially infecting and destroying motor neurons, leading to muscle weakness and acute flaccid paralysis. Different types of paralysis may occur, depending on the nerves involved. Spinal polio is the most common form, characterized by asymmetric paralysis that most often involves the legs. Bulbar polio leads to weakness of muscles innervated by cranial nerves. Bulbospinal polio is a combination of bulbar and spinal paralysis.[4]
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How does the polio vacine prevent polio?
By giving you a watered down version of the disease, white blood cells in your immune system learn which antibody to produce and how to fight polio. If you get the disease for real, they can make it much quicker, and therefore get rid of it before you even show symptoms.
How did America react to the polio vaccine?
i would say it affected america because a lot of people were being affected by polio so when they came along with a vaccine a lot of people were going to want this because who wants to spend their life in a wheelchair?
Who are benefited with pulse polio program?
the children suffering from polio and thier parents are benefited with this programme.
Polio is transmitted, most commonly, through fecal matter and saliva.
Do adults need boosters for polio?
Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) can prevent polio.
A 1916 polio epidemic in the United States killed 6,000 people and paralyzed 27,000 more. In the early 1950's there were more than 25,000 cases of polio reported each year. Polio vaccination was begun in 1955. By 1960 the
number of reported cases had dropped to about 3,000, and by 1979 there were only about 10. The success of polio vaccination in the U.S. and other countries has sparked a world-wide effort STARTED BY Rotary International, WHO, UNICEFF and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to eliminate polio.
Polio today has been eliminated from the United States. But the disease is still common in 3 endemic countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. It would only take one person infected with polio virus coming from another country to bring the disease back here if we were not protected by vaccine. If the effort to eliminate the disease from the world is successful, some day we won't need polio vaccine. Until then, we need to keep getting our children vaccinated until POLIO is finally eradicated.
How did polio change Franklin Roosevelt's live?
I'm not sure one can say exactly. The disease was common at that time.
