Polio

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Jonas Salk was an American Virologist and Medical Researcher who is best known for his discovery and development of the Polio Vaccine.

The global eradication of poliomyelitis is a public health effort to eliminate all cases of poliomyelitis (polio) infection around the world. The global effort, begun in 1988 and led by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and The Rotary Foundation, has reduced the number of annual diagnosed cases from the hundreds of thousands to around a thousand.

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None die from polio. sorry, not true...many old cases of polio proved to cause paralysis, obviously. But if it spreads to the respiratory muscles, it can, in fact, kill you. This was when the iron lung was designed. I have no idea how many people die each year, but they do.

There is no cure for polio - there is instead a preventive vaccine, discovered by Dr. Jonas Salk.
There is no cure for polio. Honourable Jonas Salk discovered vaccine for polio. He did not claim for patent of polio vaccine and saved innumerable lives of this disabling disease.

Jonas Salk married Donna Lindsay. Jonas Salks married Donna Lindsay on June 9, 1939.

Throughout the world polio us present every year, but there was a major outbreak of polio in 1955 in North America. Polio is still present in the world although it is generally not a problem in Western countries. The virus may be endemic (everyone has it) in some countries although only 10% of the population show symptoms. The virus is spread by fecal contamination of food or water or by mouth to mouth contact.

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.

Jonas salk was a scientist that invented the polio vaccine.

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He didnt.

The inventor of one of the forms of the Polio vaccine, Dr. Salk was born in New York City and died 1995 due to heart failure.

At itâ??s time (prior to 1955), Polio was a major childhood disease and a major killer and crippler of young people. In 1950 alone ,3,145 deaths were reported with more than 57,628 cases reported. Although the virus had been extant for millennia, it only reached epidemic stages in the 20th century.

Vaccines PREVENT you from catching a disease- MUCH better than curing you after you catch it! Within the past few years, vaccination has eradicated the disease of smallpox- it not longer exists, and people will not longer die from it.

well i have been living wiyh polio for over 5 years and it has been hell for me and i have 3 kids and i think they have polio to i hope they dont but if they do i will just have to deal with it.It makes me cry every time i think about it so all of my kids have no hair and they have one fat leg and one skinny leg

Jonas Salk had 3 boys. Peter, Darrell, and Jonathan

Jonas salk has got a few or a lot awards i am researching it and so far I've only got 2 and i will share the ones which i found out:

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In 1956, Salk is awarded the Lasker Award for developing the polio vaccine. This award was given to a person in history who has discovered or created an advancement in science.

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He earned the presidential medal of freedom, the decoration bestowed by the president of United States and is, along with the equivelent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of congress, the highest civilian award in the United States.

If i find more i will be sure to tell you three more :D

The polio vaccination was discovered by Jonas Salk.

English doctor Edward Jenner (1749-1823) used the first recorded vaccination. He was inspired to develop the technique when he noticed that dairymaids in rural Gloucestershire who had previously been sick with cowpox did not catch smallpox, a disease similar to cowpox. Jenner wondered if the dairymaids had developed immunity to smallpox, which then often killed people in much-feared epidemics. Jenner tested his theory on an eight-year-old boy named Phipps. He took some matter from a milkmaid's cowpox vesicles (blisters) and injected it into the boy, who then developed temporary immunity (resistance) to smallpox.

There are no exact figures, but, as the most common serious side effect is due to a allergic reaction to the vaccine, and that reaction occurs less than 1 time per million doses administered, the number of fatalities directly due to the vaccine itself is extremely small.

The OPV (activated polio virus) causes polio just over 2 in a million times. The IPV (inactivated polio virus) does not cause polio at all. IPV is now the standard vaccine given in countries where polio is no longer present - OPV is the standard where polio is still endemic (as it is a bit more effective than the IPV in promoting resistance).

Overall, in the 50+ year history of the various polio vaccines, I would estimate that the total number of deaths linked to the vaccine number in the low hundreds, almost all of them due to uncontrolled allergic reactions. Which is a very low risk, considering that upwards of 20 billion vaccines have been given.

If you can get all the children of your locality polio vaccinated, there is least liklihood of future generation having contacted polio disease. By this way the impact of polio vaccination is immese. By rigorous polio vaccination drive, India has been declared by WHO as polio free country for two consecutive years.

Dr. Jonas Salk died of heart failure in La Jolla, California. He died at the age of 80 on June 23, 1995.

Jonas Salk developed the Polio Vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. Without the Polio vaccine, people today would still be suffering from the disease today.

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Peter - AIDS researcher

Darrell - Physician and biotech researcher

Jonathan - Psychiatrist

Stepchildren:

Paloma Picasso - fashion designer

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