Poliomyelitis

Sam Rushay: Polio’s ravaging effects were felt for decades - Blue Springs Examiner Sam Rushay: Polio’s ravaging effects were felt for decades - Blue Springs Examiner Coronavirus: Bad, but not the worst ever | Opinion - Dearborn Press and Guide Peter Salk is eager for a COVID-19 vaccine - La Jolla Light Sam Rushay: Polio’s ravaging effects were felt for decades - Blue Springs Examiner Posted: 09 May 2020 12:00 AM PDT When he was 9 years old, Harry Truman contracted diphtheria. His brother, Vivian, was also diagnosed with it. But while Vivian recovered quickly, Harry "took a dramatic turn for the worse," in the words of David McCullough, author of "Truman." His arms and legs were paralyzed, and his mother wheeled him around in a carriage. He was sick for months until "abruptly, miraculously he recovered…." With the exception of his childhood bout with diphtheria, Harry Truman was healthy for ...

New Oral Polio Vaccine Candidate Could Signal Strategy to Fight COVID-19 - Contagionlive.com New Oral Polio Vaccine Candidate Could Signal Strategy to Fight COVID-19 - Contagionlive.com Posted: 04 May 2020 12:00 AM PDT Raul Andino, PhD In much of the world, polio is thought of as a bygone disease—a threat that seems to belong in the history books. However, the virus itself has continued to evolve in dangerous ways, and the polio vaccine itself is actually part of the problem. In a recently published study, investigators explained how the attenuated virus in the Sabin oral polio vaccine changed—and how they developed a new vaccine that limits the risk of such evolution. The results could have implications for the final push to eradicate polio, and might also affect how vaccine developers create vaccines for conditions like coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Writing in the journal Cell Host & Microbe , Raul Andino, PhD, of the...

What People Can Learn From The Discovery Of A Polio Vaccine - NPR What People Can Learn From The Discovery Of A Polio Vaccine - NPR What to Expect When a Coronavirus Vaccine Finally Arrives - The New York Times 'Designer virus' is first new polio vaccine in 50 years - Medical Xpress What People Can Learn From The Discovery Of A Polio Vaccine - NPR Posted: 21 May 2020 12:48 PM PDT People in the 1950s anxiously waited for scientists to come up with ways to protect children from polio. The road to a polio vaccine might contain some lessons for today's health crisis. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Most health experts say a vaccine will be needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic. It wouldn't be the first time a vaccine ended a disease that terrorized Americans. In the 1950s, people waited anxiously for scientists to come up with a way to prevent children from coming down with infantile paralysis, better known...

What to Expect When a Coronavirus Vaccine Finally Arrives - The New York Times What to Expect When a Coronavirus Vaccine Finally Arrives - The New York Times Posted: 21 May 2020 07:25 AM PDT On a spring morning in 1955 , a pair of press officers greeted a mob of reporters in a stately hall on the University of Michigan campus. The officers had hot news: A clinical trial of the long-awaited polio vaccine had proved it to be safe and effective. The reporters nearly rioted in their scramble to spread the word. Once they did, church bells rang, and people ran into the streets to cheer. In the midst of our current pandemic, collective hope for a vaccine is just as palpable and regularly reinforced — as it was with this week's news of promising results from a small coronavirus vaccine test . The federal government's top infectious-disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that "the ultimate game changer in this will be a ...