Essay on Polio

immunizations, such as: Dtap, Polio, Hep A, and Varicella. Dtap and Polio are 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

For the Good of the Many In less than 20 years, worldwide cases of polio dropped from 350,000 in 125 countries down to just 2,000 infections in 17 countries (CDC, HHS)(Vaccine Programs…). Pertussis once claimed the lives of over 9,000 Americans every year. In the decade of the 2000s, it claimed only 181 lives. Just 50 years ago, Rubella caused the death or miscarriage of over 13,000 infants in this country. Another 20,000 were born blind, deaf, and/or mentally retarded. Tetanus, today in 2015, will

Annotated Bibliography Brody, Jane E. "Breakthroughs in Prenatal Screens." New York Times. 08 Oct. 2013: p. D.5. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 02 Feb. 2014. This article explains the unique development in prenatal screenings. Down syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality disease, occurs in about one in every 700 births in the U.S. At 10 weeks of pregnancy a mother’s blood contains about 10 to 12 percent of the DNA that belongs to the fetus. With the use of a new screening test the blood can be tested

who died of an aggressive form of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins in 1951. Her cells were taken without her consent nor the consent of her family members after her death and used for research from the effects of cosmetics to the formation of the polio vaccine. The cells, tagged as “HeLa” by the scientist who received them at Johns Hopkins where Henrietta had come for treatment, are used even today. They were the first cell line to be successfully cultured and proliferated beautifully to become the

Introduction For Nigeria, the polio virus is still around in the country because of purely religious reasons. A section of the country, precisely the northern axis spurned a theory that the polio vaccine was fertility control tool of the west. Nothing could be further from the truth! But for intervention of senior clerics and prominent politicians from the area, there would have a standstill in the eradication efforts. To worsen matters, damage had been done by the time of the intervention

Polio which may also be called poliomyelitis is a viral disease that can be spread or transmitted from individual to individual mainly through the fecal-oral route. The word polio is of Greek origin “polios” meaning grey and “myelos” meaning marrow which refers to the grey particle of the spinal cord. It is noted that about 90% of polio infections are asymptomatic but affected patients can show an amount of if the virus enters their blood circulation. In rare cases, the virus can enter the central

or Polio is an infectious viral disease that attacks the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis. Paralysis is the loss of the ability to move due to poison, injury or illness. In 1789 English physician Michael Underwood referred to polio as “a debility of the lower extremities.” However, the disease later became known as infantile paralysis because of its propensity to affect children. Polio mainly affects children five years of age and younger. The first Polio epidemic

Perspectives on the expanded program on immunization in the quest to eradicate polio in Nigeria: A comparative evaluation. Word count: 2,559. Introduction Poliomyelitis also referred to as polio or infantile paralysis is a highly infectious yet preventable viral infection (WHO 2014). It is caused by a human virus of the enterovirus subgroup called the poliovirus; a member of the picornaviridae family (GPEI 2015a, Atkinson et al., 2009). Three subtypes of the poliovirus exist: P1, P2 and P3. Immunity

POLIO Poliomyelitis popularly known as polio was first described by Michael Underwood in 1789. It is a highly infectious viral disease which mostly affects children. The virus is transmitted from person to person via fecal-oral route and less frequent by common vehicle route like contaminated water or food. Polio is a member of the enteroviruses which are transient inhabitants of the gastrointestinal tracts and stable at acid pH. The incubation period for poliomyelitis is 6 to 20 days with a

A highly infectious disease caused by virus is “POLIO” which can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours due to invasion of nervous tissue. The polio virus consists of an RNA genome enclosed in a protein shell known as capsid. There are three serotypes of wild polio virus; type 1, type 2, and type 3 each of them with their different capsid protein. Type 1 and 3 are highly infectious but 1 is the most pervasive strain of polio and 3 are at low levels. In the 20th century it