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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
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.
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.
When was the first polio outbreak?
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.
Whch president had polio as an adult?
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.
How would someone avoid being infected by polio disease?
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.
How long ago was polio eradicated?
Last one? Polio is still problematic. We are working on ridding the world of this disease.
Source:
http://www.polioeradication.org/disease.asp
Why did Jonas Salk invent Vaccine for Polio?
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?"
When did Jonas Salk create the first vaccine?
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.
How do you describe the reproduction of polio in the body?
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.
