Opposition and aid worker killings: One factor contributing to the continued circulation of polio immunization programs has been religious opposition in some countries.In Pakistan and Afghanistan‚ the Taliban have issued ’’fatwas’’ against polio vaccination.After theSeptember 11 attacks‚ a myth arose in Pakistan that the United States was currently using immunization campaigns to sterilize the local population in order to reduce muslim population. Health officials tried to dispel this story‚ but
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Poliovirus is from the subgroup enterovirus and the family Picornaviradae. It is a virus that causes poliomyelitis‚ which is better known as polio. Poliovirus is usually contracted by the fecal-oral route‚ but sometimes infects by the oral-oral route. Once ingested‚ it is thought that poliovirus first infects the epithelial cells in the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract and then spreads to the submucosal lymphoid tissue. This is when the first mild symptoms of poliomyelitis occur. These symptoms
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in educating the community regarding the efficiency and safety of the currently licensed vaccines. Polio has been the most feared illness during childhood. Polio has caused paralysis and most deaths in the past. A dramatic polio increase was experienced around 1910 all over the world. The regular polio epidemics served as a driving force towards the development of polio vaccines. (procon.org)The polio vaccine was developed in the year 1953 while its oral version followed after. According to American
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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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How to Take a Pulse The pulse refers to the pressure of the blood pushing against the wall of an artery‚ (a blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart)‚ as the heart beats and rest. When taking a pulse you are counting beats per minute‚ (the rate) and recording three different facts about the pulse the rate‚ the rhythm‚ and volume of pulse. These facts are very important to complete information and help in assessing your patient. Also‚ when taking a pulse find arteries that lay close
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THE INTERPRETATION OF THE POSITIVE VENOUS PULSE.* ALBION WALTER HEWVLETT‚ M.D. (Assistant Professor of AMedicine at thze Cooper Medical College‚ San Francisco‚ Cal.) INTRODUCTION. The normal venous pulse is characterized by the presence of two main waves. The first of these‚ the a wave‚ is due to the contractioni of the right auricle‚ and immediately precedes the carotid pulse. The other‚ or v wave‚ appears in the neck in early diastole coincident with the closure of the semilunar valves
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How to Check a Patient’s Radial Pulse Whether you are thinking of going into the medical field as a doctor or nurse or starting at the bottom as a certified nurse assistant‚ you will need to learn the basics of taking vital signs. The very first vital sign you learn as a medical student is taking a pulse. Pulse measures the rate at which your heart beats. Also the rhythm and the strength (strong or soft) can be determined as well. Checking pulse helps determine the condition of your heart; and gives
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Polio is known as the “crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease. It is caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected person’s brain and spinal cord‚ causing paralysis (can’t move parts of the body)”as said by the CDC. Jonas Salk encountered polio in everyday life and he started to create the vaccine. Now in the 21st century Polio is very rare and there is zero known cases in the US. Jonas Salk explored the many strings of the virus and used
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The book Jonas Salk : Conquering Polio tells about Jonas Salk’s life‚ childhood‚ education‚ and the time he spent working on a vaccine for Polio. I chose this book because I did not know much about this subject and I am also interested in history. From a very young age Jonas Salk was pushed by his parents to do the very best that he can do in school. Jonas listened to his parents and pushed him self hard in school. His hard work combined with his intelligence allowed Jonas Salk to skip multiple
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Biology Task To investigate the effect of some factor affecting pulse rate Aim TO investigate how exercise affects the pulse rate. To do this‚ we took our normal pulse rate and then compared it with the pulse rate after exercise (walking). We kept all other factors constant so as to study the effect of exercise on pulse rate. Introduction Our heart is a muscle. It’s located a little to the left of the middle of our chest‚ and it’s about the size of our fist. There are lots of muscles all over
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