Polio

Most of the people who get Polio are in areas of bad sanitation, have drunk or been near contaminated water, young pregnant women and those whose immune systems are already weakened by other medical conditions or diseases. Other ways you can pick up Polio include; travelling to places where Polio is currently endemic, living with someone who is infected with Polio, having your tonsils removed or working in a laboratory where live Poliovirus is kept.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt lost use of his legs due to poliomyelitis. He got it at age 39 in August of 1921 when he was vacationing at Campobello Island in New Brunswick. Although he was officially diagnosed as a polio case, many people now believe that he had Guillain-Barré syndrome.

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Frank Delano Roosevelt did although the US people did not realise he was paralysed from the waist down. He was never photographed in a wheelchair. He died in office during WW2. Truman then became president.

It started in the 1789 in England. A man got it, it was caused by contaminated water. Then the man got paralysis because it attacked the nerve cell of the man located in his right leg. And with the time he got cured.

Polio is a contagious viral illness that can kill you. Mostly children get it but a man or woman can also get it.

Umm...I know Frankin Roosevelt suffered from it as an older man, but I'm not sure about which president had it as a child.

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In today's world, polio is almost extinct to the extent that there almost is no necessary precautions you need to take. Not only that but it is also mandatory (or highly recommended) that you take vaccinations at a young age so you are probably going to be virtually resilient against the virus for around 12-13 years.

To protect against polio.

Last one? Polio is still problematic. We are working on ridding the world of this disease.

Source:

http://www.polioeradication.org/disease.asp

Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker", and the day "almost became a national holiday." His sole focus had been to develop a safe and effective vaccine as rapidly as possible, with no interest in personal profit. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"

Dr. Jonas Edward Salk, (1914-1995), developed the first vaccine against poliomyelitis in 1952. The vaccine was distributed nationally in the US after wide-scale testing was successfully completed in 1954.

Polio virus can infect only human being. Like other viruses, polio virus infect the cells. After getting attached to the cell, the virus genome is inserted into the cell body. The genetic material of the host is broken into small fragments and assembled as per the genome of the polio virus. Multiple such copies are formed and then released in the body to infect the new cells.

You take your fingers and slowly place them up your rectum then you sniff it and if it smells like fish then you have polio.

Polio short for Poliomyelitis. The cause for Polio is by infection with a member of the genus Enterovirus known as Poliovirus. There are vaccines to help prevent this virus.

you also can be born with this disease.

Polio can be lethal, yes, if untreated and there is no medical support. It was primarily active prior to the 1960s. Although it is rare in the U.S. now, children sometimes still get it; it is considered a childhood disease, although disability may be permanent throughout life. If the virus (polio) penetrates your nervous system, and it affects your nerves that control breathing, then the person may die.

Many people have survived polio and lived through adulthood, but with impairments. Polio especially affects the lungs and legs. US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was afflicted with childhood polio, and was confined to a wheelchair during his presidency.

The breakthrough came when the team of John F. Enders, Thomas Weller, andFrederick Robbins found that the polio virus could be grown in embryonic tissue--a discovery that earned them a Nobel Prize in 1954.

The name of man who invented the polio vaccine is Jonas Salk.

poliovirus invades the nerve cells of the spinal cord and kills the motor neurons. When the motor neurons are destroyed, the muscles they connect to become damaged and weaken. The result is varying degrees of paralysis, including difficulty swallowing

Immunizations were formed in an attempt to fight different disease such as polio. In many parts of the world where immunizations are given, polio and other previously deadly diseases are virtually non existent.

Jonas Salk showed no sign of wanting to be a brainiac or even thinking of becoming a scientist or anything while being a child. But, as he grew up he started to show more interest in science. As a child his interests were reading and studying mostly. His parents wanted to watch him succeed so he tried to help his parents by becoming more alert and into things. If you don't know who Jonas Salk is, he is the hero scientist that created the polio vaccine. Some famous people who have polio are Itzhak Pearlman, F.W. Roosevelt etc. You can look more people up on Yahoo!, Google, Bing, or any other website searchings you have on your computer.

Polio vaccine was developed by two scientists named Sabin and Salk. The Salk vaccine was given by injection and the Sabin was given by mouth. That vaccine was placed onto a sugar cube. When I was little, we had to be quiet and 'rest' during hot afternoons and had to stay away from swimming. When the vaccines came out we were right there to get them. We were given the Salk first and then we got the Sabin later on (just to be on the safe side).

Polio affects both the skeletal and muscular system. When the polio virus enters the body it immediately attacks the nervous system, followed by the muscular system. The muscular system is what gives the skeletal system the ability to move. Thus, when the muscular system gets infected the skeletal system no longer has the power to move the body to where it wants to go. This is known as paralysis.

Dr. Jonas Salk of La Jolla, California, developed the first polio vaccination. It was widely used in 1955 and for many years longer. The Salk Institute went on to do more important scientific developments.