Poliomyelitis

ON THIS DAY: February 23, 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk begins first mass polio vaccination in Pittsburgh - WPXI Pittsburgh ON THIS DAY: February 23, 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk begins first mass polio vaccination in Pittsburgh - WPXI Pittsburgh Pandemic Parallels: Older adults remember polio vaccines - Lynchburg News and Advance The tragic story of a Canadian vaccine trailblazer - Maclean's ON THIS DAY: February 23, 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk begins first mass polio vaccination in Pittsburgh - WPXI Pittsburgh Posted: 22 Feb 2021 09:18 PM PST The clinical trials of the vaccine on 1.8 million schoolchildren, called " polio pioneers ," that had begun in Pittsburgh in 1954, were completed by April 12, 1955, when the vaccine was announced as safe and effective. A nationwide inoculation campaign was immediately launched, though it was briefly suspended after more than 200,000 people were injected with a bad batch of the vaccine f...

Living with a pandemic: Polio in the 1940s - The Daily Tar Heel Living with a pandemic: Polio in the 1940s - The Daily Tar Heel Posted: 21 Feb 2021 04:27 PM PST "Roll up the windows — there's a case of polio at that house."  This warning from 9-year-old Dan Moury's sister wasn't an uncommon one in the summer of 1944, as polio was sweeping through North Carolina in one of its worst outbreaks yet. Moury's family was taking a trip to Carolina Beach from Greensboro, where about 20 of them would stay in a "big old house," as they did every summer. When they got to the beach for the week, Moury wasn't feeling well. He played outside with his cousins, but he was also spending more and more time in bed. When he got home and his mom took him to the pediatrician, a spinal tap diagnosed the disease so many families dreaded:  Polio.  Suddenly, there was a quarantine sign on the family's front door. His...

Pandemic Parallels: Older adults remember polio vaccines - ABC10.com KXTV Pandemic Parallels: Older adults remember polio vaccines - ABC10.com KXTV Posted: 20 Feb 2021 09:11 AM PST "If you look back, polio and this thing is almost the same type of thing," Hartt said. HARRISONBURG, Va. — Like many kids his age, James Hartt as a teen in the '60s enjoyed passing the time with a bit of naive, reckless abandonment. One way Hartt found to amuse himself was leaping from a nearby bridge and sticking the landing on the other side, until one day, Hartt woke up unable to move his legs. Immediately, fear set in that it could be poliomyelitis — every parent's waking fear in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Fortunately, a doctor deduced Hartt's diagnosis was two sprained legs as a result of his airborne adventures, but many children around the world were not as fortunate. When it became available, Hartt got his vaccine. Near...

'N. Korea Runs out of Polio Vaccine for First Time' - KBS WORLD Radio News 'N. Korea Runs out of Polio Vaccine for First Time' - KBS WORLD Radio News Posted: 19 Feb 2021 08:28 PM PST Photo : YONHAP News North Korea is known to be facing a shortage of polio vaccines as it has closed its border for quarantine reasons. According to the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, the North ran out of polio vaccines for the first time last October. The vaccination rate of the oral polio vaccine type 3 (OPV3) was 84-point-three percent in the third quarter, down from 97 percent the previous year. UNICEF predicts the inoculation rate will further drop following the lack of supplies in the fourth and first quarters. The agency notes tuberculosis treatment and diagnostic equipment are also running low in North Korea while 90-thousand of its residents including 27-thousand children cannot access quality med...

'This is the time to give:' Vitalant opens new blood, plasma donor site in Tempe - The Arizona Republic 'This is the time to give:' Vitalant opens new blood, plasma donor site in Tempe - The Arizona Republic Posted: 18 Feb 2021 01:23 PM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] 'This is the time to give:' Vitalant opens new blood, plasma donor site in Tempe    The Arizona Republic Polio, swine flu and now COVID-19: How today's vaccination effort echoes Louisville's past - Courier Journal Posted: 10 Feb 2021 02:38 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content] Polio, swine flu and now COVID-19: How today's vaccination effort echoes Louisville's past    Courier Journal You are subscribed to email updates from "poliomyelitis treatment" - Google News . To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now . Email delivery...

Kentland Rotary hears about six areas of service - Newsbug.info Kentland Rotary hears about six areas of service - Newsbug.info Posted: 15 Feb 2021 11:56 AM PST KENTLAND, Ind. — The Kentland Rotary Club met virtually Feb. 9 with a District Governor from Mexico City in attendance. A video was presented that reminded the local club of the six areas of service. The first area is promoting peace throughout the world. The second area is the fighting of disease, which the effort to eradicate polio has been a focus of Rotary International since 1985. Two countries remain to be fully treated for polio, both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Last year the club learned that the continent of Africa was free of the wild virus. The third area of service is providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene. The fourth area is saving mothers and children. The fifth area is supporting education and the sixth area of service throughout the world is growing local e...