Poliomyelitis

Here's why we can't rush a COVID-19 vaccine - AAMC Here's why we can't rush a COVID-19 vaccine - AAMC Posted: 31 Mar 2020 07:16 AM PDT A viral disease spreads across the globe, causing debilitating illness and death in numbers that mount by the day. Scientists race to develop a vaccine as panic grows, and within a year, millions of Americans get inoculated. The scourge recedes. Except for those who get one of the 120,000 doses that accidentally contain the live virus. Some 40,000 inoculated children contract a mild form of the disease. Dozens more children get stricken by the paralysis that the vaccine was designed to prevent, as do over 100 other people who pick up the virus from the inoculated children. Ten of them die. Such tragic errors from inoculations against disease — this one from the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, MD, in the 1950s, one of the most successful immunizations in history —...

More than 18-million people walking today thanks to polio vaccine: WHO director - Toronto Sun More than 18-million people walking today thanks to polio vaccine: WHO director - Toronto Sun Posted: 29 Mar 2020 07:19 AM PDT In today's health climate, the need for a vaccine is ever important. Sixty-five years ago, the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) — the first of its kind — was created by American doctor Jonas Salk to help treat poliomyelitis, an infectious viral disease that attacks that nervous system and causes irreversible paralysis within hours if not treated. According to the World Health Organization (WHO,) polio vaccines have helped reduce cases of the disease from more than 350,000 in 125 endemic countries in 1988 to just 156 in two countries in 2019. Michel Zaffran, WHO's director for Polio Eradication, said the development of the vaccine was critical in helping control the disease worldwide. "Since the lau...

1946 polio case quarantines farm family | Yarns of Yesteryear - Leader-Telegram 1946 polio case quarantines farm family | Yarns of Yesteryear - Leader-Telegram CDC Director Says 1 In 4 May Have No Coronavirus Symptoms : Shots - Health News - NPR Remember when: Polio epidemic of the 1950s - The Andalusia Star-News - Andalusia Star-News 1946 polio case quarantines farm family | Yarns of Yesteryear - Leader-Telegram Posted: 30 Mar 2020 03:00 AM PDT The year was 1946. World War II had ended, but the state and national concern that year focused on a new enemy, poliomyelitis, better known as infantile paralysis, or polio. Our family lived on an 80-acre dairy farm in Manitowoc County, which did not have electricity or indoor plumbing. We relied on a windmill to pump our water or had to resort to pumping it by hand. We hand milked 15 cows twice a day. Needless to say, farming was a struggle then, and to make matters worse, my t...

New Polio cases amid Covid-19 outbreak in Pakistan - Times of India New Polio cases amid Covid-19 outbreak in Pakistan - Times of India Posted: 30 Mar 2020 02:33 AM PDT ISLAMABAD: While health authorities in the country are finding it difficult to deal with a sudden spike in the number of coronavirus patients, several new cases of poliovirus have been reported in Pakistan, worsening the current health crisis. Three boys have been paralysed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest part of the country by crippling polio, taking up the current year's tally to 36 on Monday, Dawn reported. An official working for the National Institute of Health confirmed that a nine-month-old boy, a resident of Lakki Marwat District, with his right upper limb paralysed, was among the three infected by the poliovirus. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by poliovirus and it mainly affects children under the age of five. The poliovirus targets...