REVIEW POLIO AN AMERICAN STORY BY DAVID M.OCHINSKY PHAR 6605 Pharmaceutical Industry structure and government regulations PRESENTED BY: Asakiran Nadikatla PRESENTED TO: Gerard Cleaves Polio an American story is a scholarly readable and informative book which covers the lives of many American eminent scientists who struggled a lot to eradicate polio. This book mainly focuses on the mid twentieth century where the people are very eager to find a vaccine to eradicate polio .This book
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Submitted to: Ma’am Chalee S. Reyes Ma’am Julie J. Tiu Submitted by: Jenn Lori Y. Gepaya BMLS-2E POLIOMYELITIS Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly contagious infectious viral disease‚ which mainly affects young children below five years old. It is an acute and communicable disease. Although approximately 90% of polio infections cause no symptoms at all‚ affected individuals can exhibit a range of symptoms if the virus enters the blood stream. In about 1% of cases‚ the
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NUR FATIN IZZATI BINTI RAHMAT AQ 100014 THEME: POLIO TITLE: DISASTER OF POLIO AND HOW TO COMBAT IT LECTURER: SALEHAH SHAHAR VIROLOGY ASSIGNMENT INTRODUCTION Over there look like a girl trying hard to drag her body on the floor and cause abrasion on her knee while an elderly sell old items from his wheelchair to raise some money for food and there is also a young man moves hardly‚ aided by obsolete surfboard. Just imagine about the agony and paralysis of the muscles that become flabby
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POLIO- Draft Done by: Fariha Ibnath Khan History Polio is also known as poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis. Polio is a viral disease that affects nerves and can lead to partial or full paralysis. It’s a disease caused by inflammation of nerve cells in the brain stem or spinal cord. The first polio was mentioned in Europe in the 19th century and was first reported in the United States in 1843. Michael Underwood first described this disease in children as Polio in 1789. The diseases history changed
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Pulse Polio Pulse Polio is an immunization campaign established by the government of India in 1995-96 to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against polio virus. This project deals with the ways to fight poliomyelitis through a large scale immunization programme‚ co-operating with various international institutions‚ state governments and Non Governmental Organizations. In India‚ vaccination against Polio started in 1978 with Expanded
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Pulse Polio- In 1995-96 the government of India established an immunization campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against the polio virus. This project deals with the ways to fight poliomyelitis through a large scale immunization programmer‚ co-operating with various international institutions‚ state governments and Non Governmental Organizations. This campaign is called Pulse Polio. The vaccination for polio started around 1978
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Conquering Polio Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Jonas Salk Biography on Jonas Salk By Garrett Hoover Jonas Salk was born on October 28‚ 1914 in New York City. It was here four years later he asked himself why some of the kids on his street were crippled while he had two strong legs. Scientist still had not found a cure or vaccine for Polio‚ a crippling and sometimes deadly virus. Salk’s parents‚ like many‚ did all they could to keep their son from getting polio. As Salk grew older he excelled
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BIODIVERSITY ESSAY & CASE STUDY In this world‚ there are over 12‚000 diseases caused by either bacteria or viruses‚ and most of them are yet to be discovered. One of the dreadful diseases revealed is polio (which is shortened for poliomyelitis) (Ballard). The polio virus enters the body through the mouth‚ multiplies in the throat and intestine‚ and spreads through the blood to the central nervous system. Thus‚ the virus attacks the CNS‚ which can lead to paralysis. The paralysis would start with
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Poliomyelitis (shortened to polio) has been around for thousands of years‚ and there is still no cure‚ but at the peak of its devastation in the United States‚ Dr. Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system‚ causing muscle wasting‚ paralysis‚ and even death. The disease‚ whose symptoms are flu like‚ stuck mostly children‚ and in the first half of the 20th century the epidemics of polio were becoming more devastating. Salk
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Daniel Iverson 2/5/2017 Period 3 Polio The invention of the polio vaccine has undoubtedly benefitted not only the U.S but the whole world. In the United States‚ polio was the most notorious disease of the 20th century until AIDS appeared‚ by the 1950s polio had become one of the most serious communicable diseases among children in the United States. Polio changed the medical field‚ disability rights‚ and had social effects. And not to mention saved millions of children and adults having to go
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