Polio

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

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Years before Jonas Salk's work, Dr. Albert Sabin developed a polio vaccine using live virus. The Sabin vaccine was used for 18 years before the government recommended using the Salk vaccine, exclusively.

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I was working as a Pharmacist at Wayne Apothecaries, a Detroit Professional Pharmacy, on the date that Poliomyelitis Vaccine first because available. That was April 18, 1952. So it was on that date or shortly thereafter that the first shot for Polio was given on the East side of Detroit.

Polio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th Century in the United States. There were usually about 13,000 to 20,000 cases of paralytic polio reported each year in the US before the introduction of Salk inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in 1955. Polio peaked in 1952 when there were more than 21,000 reported cases. The number of cases of polio decreased dramatically following introduction of the vaccine and the development of a national vaccination program. In 1965, only 61 cases of paralytic polio were reported compared to 2,525 cases reported cases just five years earlier in 1960.

Dr. Jonas Salk created a vaccine for poliomytis or Polio. In 1954, Salk had done the biggest field trial ever recored in history. He did this experiment on over 1.8 million people. There was 2 vaccines. One was the vaccine that he has created and then the Placebo. Then he had a control group. He died on June 23, 1995. He was 80 years old when he died

After you have Poliomyelitis (Polio), you may end up with a long term effect. Paralize can happen and something called post polio syndrome. To learn more go to Poliointrouble.org to find out more. Im in college and graduating next so this is a right answer, not just something a hobo wrote. :)

He invented one of the polio vaccines. He did this in the mid-1050's.

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Intensified Pulse Polio Program started in India in 1994 officially, but it was spread through out the country in 1995 with the main aim of eradicating polio by 2000 AD. According to it there is no need of giving oral polio vaccine to the children after 2000 AD. But this was not successful and so was extended up to 2005 with a vision of declaring India a polio free state by 2005. But this also failed. According to National Plan of Action 2005 developed by Department of women and child development 2007 the objective under child survival is to certify by 2007 the eradication of polio, which is not possible under present conditions with almost 1000 cases of polio being reported from different states of India.

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Patients with abortive polio infections recover completely. In those who develop only aseptic meningitis, the symptoms can be expected to persist for two to ten days, followed by complete recovery. In cases of spinal polio, if the affected nerve cells are completely destroyed, paralysis will be permanent; cells that are not destroyed, but lose function temporarily, may recover within four to six weeks after onset. Half the patients with spinal polio recover fully; 25% recover with mild disability, and the remaining quarter are left with severe disability. The degree of both acute paralysis and residual paralysis is likely to be proportional to the degree of viremia, and inversely proportional to the degree of immunity. Spinal polio is rarely fatal.

Without respiratory support, consequences of poliomyelitis with respiratory involvement include suffocation or pneumonia from aspiration of secretions. Overall, 5--10% of patients with paralytic polio die due to the paralysis of muscles used for breathing. The mortality rate varies by age: 2--5% of children and up to 15--30% of adults die. Bulbar polio often causes death if respiratory support is not provided; with support, its mortality rate ranges from 25 to 75%, depending on the age of the patient. When positive pressure ventilators are available, the mortality can be reduced to 15%.

He contracted polio in August 1921, while the Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada. He was 39 years old at the time. This diagnosis has since been questioned by experts reviewing F.D.R.'s medical history.