Poliomyelitis

Polio vaccine triumph could speed coronavirus pandemic end - ABC27 Polio vaccine triumph could speed coronavirus pandemic end - ABC27 Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:18 PM PDT PITTSBURGH (AP) — Peter Salk still remembers the trepidation he felt when his father came home from work one day in May 1953 and promptly began boiling a set of needles and syringes on the kitchen stove. With several years of research and promising results in monkeys fueling high hopes, Dr. Jonas Salk had brought from his lab at the University of Pittsburgh a still-experimental vaccine candidate to their Pine home. His family would become among the first humans in the world to test a shot against the mysterious polio virus crippling and killing children. "I'm sure that my father told us (the importance of) what was happening," said Dr. Peter Salk, 76, a Pitt professor of infectious diseases and microbiology and president of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation, spea...

Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Poliomyelitis Vaccines Market 2019 Services, Demand, Size, Growth Trends, Business Opportunities, Industry Analysis, Top Players & Forecast to 2033 – Aminet Market Reports - amitnetserver Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Poliomyelitis Vaccines Market 2019 Services, Demand, Size, Growth Trends, Business Opportunities, Industry Analysis, Top Players & Forecast to 2033 – Aminet Market Reports - amitnetserver Posted: 29 Apr 2020 03:51 AM PDT Companies in the Poliomyelitis Vaccines market are vying suggestive steps to tackle the challenges resulting from the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. Exhaustive research about COVID-19 is providing present-day techniques and alternative methods to mitigate the impact on Coronavirus on the revenue of the Poliomyelitis Vaccines market. The report on the Poliomyelitis Vaccines market provides a bird's eye view of the current proceedings and advancements within ...

Guest column: Today's news is reminder of polio pandemic - Victoria Advocate Guest column: Today's news is reminder of polio pandemic - Victoria Advocate Posted: 09 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT Today, there is constant news about the COVID-19 pandemic. A few months ago, no one knew anything about this new disease, its effect on humans, how it spreads, cure or its treatment. Today, we don't hear much about the polio pandemic of 1952 because a vaccine now prevents it. I'll write my polio story since I have firsthand knowledge about the polio virus and how it impacts one's body. A 1952 headline appearing in newspapers throughout the United States: "Polio Strikes Terror in Texas and Across the Nation." From the Houston Chronicle, July 1952: "Six new cases of polio reported at Hedgecroft Hospital in Houston on Saturday. Among them were two brothers Frank Fishar, 7, and Jerome Fishar, 4, of East Be...

Polio epidemic was scary time | Opinion - Wilkes Journal Patriot Polio epidemic was scary time | Opinion - Wilkes Journal Patriot Posted: 29 Apr 2020 09:00 AM PDT Efforts in response to the coronavirus raise memories of another viral threat – the polio epidemic of the 1940s and early 1950s. Polio spread through central North Carolina in the mid-1930s, followed by a wave in Wilkes and other western counties by 1944. About 860 cases were reported statewide in 1944, and about 2,500 cases with 143 deaths in 1948. It was a fearful time. Before Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio (patented in 1955), the virus crippled an average of over 35,000 Americans each year. Children typically were the victims. Baby boomers have childhood memories of standing in line to be vaccinated. Before it was determined that polio is  usually caused by consuming food or water contaminated with feces of an infected person or not wash...

Coronavirus reminds older Elk Grove residents of polio epidemic - Elk Grove Citizen Coronavirus reminds older Elk Grove residents of polio epidemic - Elk Grove Citizen Posted: 03 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues, some of Elk Grove's elderly residents are reminded of another disease that caused great fear in the lives of millions: polio. For decades, polio severely worried parents, as this infectious viral disease, which was also known as "infantile paralysis," mostly affected young children, causing muscle weakness, paralysis, and, in the most severe cases, death. Although COVID-19 has different symptoms and complications than polio, the two diseases have similarities, as both have caused great panic, and infected and killed many people. And like the novel coronavirus, polio spread while having no known cure. The nation's first polio outbreak occurred in Vermont in 1894, a...

How a polio outbreak led to the invention of modern intensive care - New Statesman How a polio outbreak led to the invention of modern intensive care - New Statesman Posted: 13 Apr 2020 12:00 AM PDT A worldwide viral epidemic accelerating out of control, a health service on the brink, a critical lack of breathing apparatus: we've been here before. In 1952, an epidemic of polio led to the birth of intensive care, and the invention of the modern ventilator. Poliomyelitis, or polio, is a paralysing infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. It most commonly affects children under the age of five. In temperate climates it occurs in the warmest months, which explains one of the names – the "summer plague" – that have been given to the disease in its long history of infecting humans. While it can be prevented – billions of people have now been vaccinated against polio – there remains no cure. In the first decades of the twentieth c...

Niger reports new polio outbreak - Niger - ReliefWeb Niger reports new polio outbreak - Niger - ReliefWeb Posted: 24 Apr 2020 12:32 PM PDT Brazzaville, 24 April 2020 – Niger has reported a new polio outbreak that has affected two children in Niamey and Tillaberi region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today. Last December, the West African country along with Kenya and Mozambique reported ending polio outbreaks that had lasted 24 months. However, this new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus transmission, that paralysed a child on February 15, is not linked to the outbreak that was closed last year. "Niger stopped the previous polio outbreaks by mounting high quality mass vaccination campaigns in 2019. Unfortunately, that will not be possible now as we have suspended the polio mass vaccination campaigns due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic responses that requires global standards for social distancing and hand wa...