Poliomyelitis

Polio: When vaccines and reappearance were just as difficult | Lifestyle - Pennsylvanianewstoday.com Polio: When vaccines and reappearance were just as difficult | Lifestyle - Pennsylvanianewstoday.com Posted: 07 Jun 2021 06:35 AM PDT Cincinnati (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of vaccines to prevent it surface unforgettable memories for Americans who lived in earlier times when the country seemed to have been infected by the virus for a long time. Treatment or prevention. They were children at the time. They had friends and classmates who were tied up in wheelchairs or dragged in orthoses. Some have gone to the hospital to use the iron lungs they need to breathe. Some people didn't go home. Now they are elderly. Again, they find themselves in one of the most devastating age groups, as they did in polio childhood. They share their memories with today's young people as a hopeful lesson for their emergence fro...

Those who recall early days of polio vaccine weigh in on COVID-19 - The Columbian Those who recall early days of polio vaccine weigh in on COVID-19 - The Columbian Posted: 15 Jun 2021 06:04 AM PDT CINCINNATI — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of the vaccines that will prevent it have surfaced haunting memories for Americans who lived through an earlier time when the country was swept by a virus that, for so long, appeared to have no cure or way to prevent it. They were children then. They had friends or classmates who became wheelchair-bound or dragged legs with braces. Some went to hospitals to use iron lungs they needed to breathe. Some never came home. Now they are older adults. Again, they find themselves in what has been one of the hardest-hit age groups, just as they were as children in the polio era. They are sharing their memories with today's younger people as a lesson of hope for the emergence from COVID-19. Cly...

Polio: When vaccines and reappearance were just as difficult | Lifestyle - Pennsylvanianewstoday.com Polio: When vaccines and reappearance were just as difficult | Lifestyle - Pennsylvanianewstoday.com Posted: 14 Jun 2021 09:23 AM PDT Cincinnati (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of vaccines to prevent it surface unforgettable memories for Americans who lived in earlier times when the country seemed to have been infected by the virus for a long time. Treatment or prevention. They were children at the time. They had friends and classmates who were tied up in wheelchairs or dragged in orthoses. Some have gone to the hospital to use the iron lungs they need to breathe. Some people didn't go home. Now they are elderly. Again, they find themselves in one of the most devastating age groups, as they did in polio childhood. They share their memories with today's young people as a hopeful lesson for their emergence fro...

IN-DEPTH: Polio was just as daunting in U.S. - Atlanta Journal Constitution IN-DEPTH: Polio was just as daunting in U.S. - Atlanta Journal Constitution Posted: 13 Jun 2021 07:45 AM PDT As a result, by 1979 the disease was eradicated in the U.S. A parent's nightmare While today's children learned to stay at home and attend school remotely, wear masks when they went anywhere and frequently use hand sanitizer, many of their grandparents remember childhood summers dominated by concern about the airborne virus, which was also spread through feces. Some parents banned their kids from public swimming pools and neighborhood playgrounds and avoided large gatherings. In this Oct. 7, 1954, file photo, Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, holds a rack of test tubes in his lab in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo, File) Credit: Uncredited Credit: Uncredited "Polio was something my parents were very scared of,...

Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back - ABC News Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific. Then it suddenly came back - ABC News Posted: 13 Jun 2021 02:00 PM PDT One morning in April 2018, six-year-old Gafo woke up with aching legs. "Thursday morning he woke up from bed, he said his leg was hurting and he fell over," his dad Maya told 7.30. Gafo loved playing soccer and touch footy and had been excited to play with his friends. But on this day, Maya found his son struggling to get off the bedroom floor of their home on the outskirts of Papua New Guinea's semi-rural city of Lae. Unsure of what was wrong with him, Maya and Gafo's mum, Soya, massaged their son's legs and let him rest. "We tried all we could at home to fix his leg … every day as I did it, I cried," Soya says. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume...