Essay on Polio

cord. Poliomyelitis translates to grey spinal matter inflammation. Polio is caused by a picorna virus that enters the body through mucus membranes and then multiplies in the throat and being an acidophile, can survive well in the stomach and small intestine. When viremia occurs and persists, the virus will penetrate the capillary wall. Once this happens, it enters the central nervous system and begins attacking motor neurons. Polio is tissue specific and will only multiply and attack neurons. “this

In the earlier years, poliomyelitis or polio was a crippling and deadly disease that claimed the lives of millions of people or paralyzed its victims. The epidemic took the lives of more than 2.5 billion children prior to the vaccination discovery (“History of Polio,” YEAR). It was due to animal experimentations that Dr. Jonas Salk discovered a vaccination to combat the deadly disease. Salk and his team

disease. People living before the development of the polio vaccination lived with these constant fears. Polio could alter a life forever. During the first part of the twentieth century there was an epidemic of Polio in the United States and around the world. With such a feared disease causing panic and worry, people were searching for something to eradicate the problem. Something needed to happen and the sooner the better. The development of the polio vaccine brought hope to the world and helped to alleviate

hoping to better understand the concern over this particular disease and, if there is a threat. A World without Polio. Films On Demand. Films Media Group, 2004. Web. 13 Feb. 2016. Natively present in Africa, where the conditions favor proliferation of polio, this disease is secreted in feces and contracted through the mouth, due to poor sanitation systems. There is a campaign to “kick polio out of Africa” where intervention centers ran by trained volunteers. The volunteers feel this is a good chance

the dreaded disease called polio, which struck both young and old by the score from the 1930s to the 1950s. School children and parents were as frightened of polio as they were of nuclear bomb attacks on the United States. When the polio vaccine was finally discovered, people all over America were inoculated. Still, there were scores of people who did not trust doctors, did not like the use of needles – and some who even feared that the vaccine would give their child polio. Anti-vaccine propaganda

him aspirin (the drug of choice in that time) and put him to bed with what she imagined was the flu. The next morning his condition had produced physical weakness in his legs. A visit to the doctor, and a spinal tap, brought the devastating news: polio. He was rushed to the isolation ward of the county hospital where his condition was judged to be very grave; the next morning, he could move nothing but his head. This young boy, my great uncle Ken, spent his childhood years in and out of hospitals

By 1910, a small epidemic of polio became regular especially in cities during the summer months. The disease was later called infantile paralysis, based on its tendency to affect children. Polio is caused by one of three types of poliovirus. These viruses spread through contact between people, by nasal and oral secretions, and by contact with contaminated feces. Poliovirus enters the body through the mouth, multiplying along the way to the digestive tract, where it further multiplies. About 95% of

Guerrini's "Polio and Primates" and found it to be both informative and engaging. I did not realize prior to the reading that the path to the polio vaccine was a rushed and flawed one. I wonder how much the misinformation spread across the scientific and non-scientific communities alike as a result of Flexner's research truly "delayed the understanding of polio's complex clinic and epidemiological features" (p. 119). The reading also left me curious as to how the trajectory of polio research would

Henrietta Lacks is a women who died 62 years ago from an aggressive form of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 but her cells are still alive which are the human cell lines scientists most commonly used. George Gey is a researcher who researched cancer cell for ten more years and found the cells from Henrietta Lacks’s uterus can keep alive. He was the head of tissue culture at Johns Hopkin when Henrietta was being treated for cervical cancer and he had been actively trying to grow an

immunizations, such as: Dtap, Polio, Hep A, and Varicella. Dtap and Polio is part of Maxe’s primary immunization. First, I would ask mom if she would like her son to receive 4 mentioned above vaccines (consent needed). If mom agreed to vaccination, I would verify if her son didn’t have any of the following symptoms after receiving last Dtap: a brain or nervous system disease within 7 days, non-stop crying for 3h or more, a seizure or collapse, and fever over 105F. For the Polio vaccine I would verify