Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis (polio) - World Health Organization Poliomyelitis (polio) - World Health Organization Posted: 29 Jan 2020 05:20 AM PST Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (e.g. contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for the worldwide eradication of polio, marking the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, spearheaded by national governments, WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF, and later joined by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.  Wild poliovirus cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, fro...

US Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here's How The Polio Vaccine Overcame It : Shots - Health News - NPR US Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here's How The Polio Vaccine Overcame It : Shots - Health News - NPR Posted: 03 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archi...

Monday After: Remembering the introduction in Stark County of the polio vaccine - Canton Repository Monday After: Remembering the introduction in Stark County of the polio vaccine - Canton Repository Posted: 17 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Gary Brown  |  Special to The Canton Repository The cure for a disease that was crippling our children arrived in Stark County 66 years ago. "April 12 Verdict on Vaccine Is Seen As Death Knell of Widespread Polio," a front-page headline in The Canton Repository reported on April 3, 1955, looking ahead to the upcoming day when a press conference was expected to confirm the effectiveness of the anti-polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk of Pittsburgh. "Go-Ahead Signal Is Expected to All-Out Attack." And, indeed, little more than a week later, an announcement said that results of testing on 400,000 children done in the summer of 1954 by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. of the University o...

HIV/AIDS vaccine: Why don't we have one after 37 years, when we have several for COVID-19 after a few months? - Kansas Reflector HIV/AIDS vaccine: Why don't we have one after 37 years, when we have several for COVID-19 after a few months? - Kansas Reflector Posted: 28 May 2021 08:33 PM PDT A lab worker extracts DNA from samples for further tests at the AIDS Vaccine Design and Development Laboratory on Dec. 1, 2008, in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth following a highly effective, worldwide vaccination campaign. Paralytic poliomyelitis is no longer a problem in the U.S. because of development and use of effective vaccines against the poliovirus. In current times, millions of lives have been saved because of rapid deployment of effective vaccines against COVID-19. And yet, it has been 37 years since HIV was discovered as the cause of AIDS, and there is no ...

History Thursday: 1955 rollout of polio vaccine resembles COVID-19 era - Ohio Capital Journal History Thursday: 1955 rollout of polio vaccine resembles COVID-19 era - Ohio Capital Journal Posted: 19 May 2021 05:35 PM PDT Thousands of Ohio children who participated in the 1954 polio vaccine trial were given these "Polio Pioneer" buttons. Photo originally appeared in the Mansfield News-Journal newspaper. The thousands of "Polio Pioneers" in Ohio, one official said, were short in stature but giants went it came to being medical trailblazers. These were children in Richland and Montgomery counties who participated in a polio vaccine trial in 1954, with a nation desperate for a breakthrough against a disease that killed thousands and left many paralyzed each year. In Richland County, around 2,700 children received either the polio vaccine created by Dr. Jonas Salk or a saline solution. About a year later, readers of th...

Poliomyelitis - World Health Organization Poliomyelitis - World Health Organization Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:10 AM PST IPV is produced from wild-type poliovirus strains of each serotype that have been inactivated (killed) with formalin. As an injectable vaccine, it can be administered alone or in combination with other vaccines (e.g., diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenza). Generally three spaced doses are administered to generate adequate levels of seroconversion, and most countries, a booster dose is added during late childhood. IPV has been used successfully in the polio eradication programs in a few countries, notably in Scandinavia and the Netherlands, but until recently most countries have used the oral polio vaccine. IPV provides serum immunity to all three types of poliovirus, resulting in protection against paralytic poliomyelitis. Most studies indicate that the degree of mucosal immunity in the intestin...

US Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here's How The Polio Vaccine Overcame It : Shots - Health News - NPR US Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here's How The Polio Vaccine Overcame It : Shots - Health News - NPR Posted: 03 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated. Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archi...