61. A Science Odyssey: People And Discoveries: Salk Produces Polio Vaccine Now viruses like mumps or polio could be created in large quantities for study. The impact was dramatic In 1955 there were 28985 cases of polio; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm52sa.html

Salk produces polio vaccine Poliomyelitis has been around since ancient times. There is still no cure for the disease. But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. This infectious viral disease attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system, often causing muscle wasting and paralysis and even death. Since 1900 there had been cycles of epidemics, each seeming to get stronger and more disastrous. The disease, whose early symptoms are like the flu, struck mostly children, although adults, including Franklin Roosevelt, caught it too. As a medical student and later a researcher at the University of Michigan, Salk studied viruses, such as influenza, and ways to vaccinate against them. Successful vaccines already existed for diseases such as smallpox. For each virus, a vaccine must be custom-made, but the principles are the same: if your body is exposed to a very weak or small amount of the disease virus, it will produce antibodies, chemicals to resist and kill the virus. Then when a full-strength version of the disease virus comes along, your body is prepared to fight it. In 1947 Salk became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. He began investigating the poliovirus. To start with, he had to sort the 125 strains of the virus. He found that they fell into three basic types and knew that a vaccine would have to include these three types to protect against all polio. One of the hardest things about working with poliovirus was manufacturing enough to experiment with‹and to make vaccine production practical.

62. CNN.com - For Polio Survivors, Another Hurdle Decades Later - June 4, 2001 CNN http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/06/04/post.polio/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International ... askCNN EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe set your edition Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW For polio survivors, another hurdle decades later Dr. Lauro Halstead, who directs the post-polio program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, suffers from PPS From Rea Blakey CNN Medical Unit WASHINGTON (CNN) As many as 20 million people around the world who survived childhood polio are at risk of developing new symptoms of the disease decades later, the March of Dimes said Monday, but too little is known about the condition to adequately address it. The organization has released two reports on post-polio syndrome (PPS) to help doctors and patients find ways to diagnose and treat the illness. "There is no definitive test for PPS," said Dr. Christopher Howson of the March of Dimes, "so it's very hard to diagnose and is generally done through a process of excluding other disease conditions." Dr. Lauro Halstead, who directs the post-polio program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, is among those polio survivors now grappling with the syndrome. He first contracted the disease as a college student in the 1950s a period when mere mention of the condition could cause panic, because it was so contagious and so debilitating.

63. CNN - Polio Vaccine Policy May Change - June 16, 1999 CNN http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/16/polio.vaccine.01/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. LOCAL ... daily almanac MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists. Enter your address: document.write(' '); Or: Get a free e-mail account E-MAIL DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: AsiaNow Svenska Norge Danmark ... Italian FASTER ACCESS: europe japan TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: more networks transcripts SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: health > story page Polio vaccine policy may change POLIO QUICK FACTS Polio , short for poliomyelitis, is a viral infection that may lead to paralysis and death. It is caused by three closely related viruses and is most commonly spread by direct contact with infected individuals. A vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1950s has virtually eliminated polio from most of the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a goal of global eradication of polio by the year 2000. In 1994, the WHO declared the Americas free of polio. The last case was reported in Peru in 1991. In 1995, 78 percent of children around the world had received at least three doses of polio vaccine in their first year, and half of the world's youngest children were immunized in mass vaccination campaigns.

64. Polio Vaccines And The Origin Of AIDS Key writings about the theory that AIDS developed from contaminated polio vaccines used in Africa in the late 1950s. http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/AIDS/

Polio vaccines and the origin of AIDS: some key writings Go directly to key publications and latest developments Overview of the theory One theory of the origin of AIDS is that it developed from contaminated vaccines used in the world's first mass immunisation for polio. There are a number of reasons why this theory is plausible enough to be worthy of further investigation. The location coincides dramatically. The earliest known cases of AIDS occurred in central Africa, in the same regions where Koprowski's polio vaccine was given to over a million people in 1957-1960. The timing coincides. There is no documented case of HIV infection or AIDS before 1959. Centuries of the slave trade and European exploitation of Africa exposed Africans and others to all other diseases then known; it is implausible that HIV could have been present and spreading in Africa without being recognised. Polio vaccines are grown (cultured) on monkey kidneys which could have been contaminated by SIVs. Polio vaccines could not be screened for SIV contamination before 1985. Another monkey virus, SV-40, is known to have been passed to humans through polio vaccines. A specific pool of Koprowski's vaccine was later shown to have been contaminated by an unknown virus.

65. Famous Polio People This page is dedicated to all polio survivors famous or not, and are joined by others who also had polio, but who are just a little more recognizable. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/5212/poliopeople.html

This page is dedicated to all Polio survivors famous or not, many who are now facing the second half of their lives with a condition known as Post Polio Syndrome ...unfair as that is... and are joined by others who also had Polio , but who are just a little more recognizable... Polio survivor, Bessie “Gertrude” Brooks , has lived most of her life in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was 100 years old on March 30, 2005. [Congratulations from us all!] She is presently the oldest living Polio survivor (female), having had the disease when she was three years old. Bessie went on to marry and raised 7 children with her husband until his death. She is one terrific lady, and has family and friends that love her and take care of her. May she have many more happy years. I am also honoring, William H. Remaley, who was born in a small town called Parryville, Pennsylvania in 1904. He was stricken with Polio in 1905 just when he was taking his first steps. He is possibly the oldest living polio survivor (male). His daughter writes proudly about her father in an article on the Lincolnshire Post Polio Network Website. Click here to read more about this now famous polio survivor.

66. Polio Dossier over kinderverlamming van gezondheid.be http://www.gezondheid.be/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossier&art=86

67. WHO | Poliomyelitis Immunization and vaccine development polio eradication (SouthEast Asia Region) - polio eradication (Eastern Mediterranean Region) http://www.who.int/topics/poliomyelitis/en/

Home About WHO Countries Health topics ... Health topics Poliomyelitis This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics. MeSH scope note: An acute infectious disease of humans, particularly children, caused by any of three serotypes of human poliovirus ( POLIOVIRUS). Usually the infection is limited to the gastrointestinal tract and nasopharynx, and is often asymptomatic. The central nervous system, primarily the spinal cord, may be affected, leading to rapidly progressive paralysis, coarse FASCICULATION and hyporeflexia. Motor neurons are primarily affected. Encephalitis may also occur. The virus replicates in the nervous system, and may cause significant neuronal loss, most notably in the spinal cord. A rare related condition, nonpoliovirus poliomyelitis, may result from infections with nonpoliovirus enteroviruses. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp764-5) RELATED SITES Polio Eradication Initiative Poliomyelitis (Region of the Americas) Immunization and vaccine development: polio eradication (South-East Asia Region) Polio eradication (Eastern Mediterranean Region) ... Polio eradication (African Region) FACT SHEETS Poliomyelitis RELATED LINKS Vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization: polio eradication (European Region) Disease outbreaks: poliomyelitis Vaccine research: poliomyelitis Immunization surveillance, assessment and monitoring: poliomyelitis

68. U.N. Worldwide Polio Eradication At 99 Percent CNN http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/04/03/un.polio.ap/index.html

69. WHO | Poliomyelitis poliomyelitis and its symptoms poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly The poliovirus can easily be imported into a poliofree country and can spread rapidly http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/factsheets/fs114/en/

All WHO This site only Home About WHO Countries Health topics ... Contacts Media centre WHO WHO sites Media centre Fact sheets ... printable version Fact sheet N°114 Revised April 2003 Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis and its symptoms: Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The virus enters the body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine. Initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in the neck and pain in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). Among those paralysed, 5%–10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized. Persons at risk of polio: Polio mainly affects children under five years of age. Prevention of polio: There is no cure for polio, it can only be prevented. Polio vaccine, given multiple times, can protect a child for life. Polio caseload: Polio cases have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated more than 350 000 cases to 1919 reported cases in 2002 (as of 16 April 2003). The reduction is the result of the global effort to eradicate the disease. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative Launch: Progress: Overall, in the 15 years since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched, the number of cases has fallen by over 99%, from an estimated more than 350 000 cases in 1988 to 1919 reported cases in 2002 (as of 16 April 2003). In the same time period, the number of polio-infected countries was reduced from 125 to 7.

70. Jonas Salk, M.D. Profile -- Academy Of Achievement Provides a short biography of the developer of the polio vaccine. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sal0pro-1

The Arts Business Public Service Sports ... Academy Careers Select Career Actor Aerospace Engineer Animator Architect Art Curator Artist Astronaut Astronomer Athlete Aviator Ballerina Baseball Player Basketball Coach Basketball Player Beekeeper Biographer Broadcast Journalist Cartoonist Chemist Choreographer Dancer Director Dog Sledder Entrepreneur Ethnobotanist Explorer Farmer Figure Skater Film Producer Filmmaker Financier Geneticist Historian Investment Banker Journalist Lawyer Marine Biologist Medical Researcher Mountaineer Molecular Biologist Military/Soldier Museum Director Musician Novelist Painter Pastor Philanthropist Physicist Pilot Poet Politician Record Producer Scientist Screenwriter Singer Surgeon/Medical Doctor Teacher Theatrical Director Writer If you like Jonas Salk's story, you might also like: Judah Folkman James Watson Elie Wiesel and Tenley Albright Jonas Salk's recommended reading: The Island Within Related Links: The Jonas Salk Trust Time Global Polio Eradication Select Achiever Albright, Tenley Ambrose, Stephen E. Angelou, Maya Ballard, Robert D.

71. Polio History Page polio, or more properly poliomyelitis, was one of the most feared and studied diseases An annotated list, not only of pages dealing with polio history, http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/poliohistorypage.htm

The Polio History Pages Polio, or more properly poliomyelitis, was one of the most feared and studied diseases of the first half of the 20th Century. It appeared unpredictably, striking its victims, mostly children, with a frightening randomness that resulted in near panic during the epidemics of the 1940s and 50s. Then, in 1955, a breakthrough occurred when, after massive field trials involving nearly two-million children, the Salk vaccine was shown to be effective in preventing the disease. Today, polio is all-but-forgotten as it has completely disappeared from developed countries, and worldwide eradication is predicted by 2005. However, polio's legacy remains. It is estimated that there are 600,000 polio survivors living in the United States, and the number worldwide must be in the tens of millions. Drawing from my book, Polio's Legacy: An Oral History,

72. CNN.com - Vaccinators Hope To End Polio In Somalia - September 13, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/13/somalia.polio.ap/index.html

health Editions myCNN Video ... Feedback CNN Sites CNN CNN Europe CNNfn CNNSI myCNN CNNfyi AllPolitics Languages Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNfn.com The Web HEALTH TOP STORIES New treatments hold out hope for breast cancer patients MORE TOP STORIES Thousands dead in India; quake toll rapidly rising Israelis, Palestinians make final push before Israeli election Davos protesters confront police MORE ... MORE MARKETS 4:30pm ET, 4/16 DJIA NAS SPORTS Jordan says farewell for the third time ... LOCAL EDITIONS: CNN.com Europe change default edition MULTIMEDIA: video video archive audio multimedia showcase ... more services E-MAIL: Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists Enter your address: DISCUSSION: chat feedback CNN WEB SITES: CNNfyi.com CNN.com Europe AsiaNow Spanish ... Korean Headlines TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW CNN NETWORKS: CNN anchors transcripts Turner distribution SITE INFO: help contents search ad info ... jobs WEB SERVICES: Vaccinators hope to end polio in Somalia QANSADHERE, Somalia (AP) Thousands of people fanned out across the country Tuesday in an effort to eradicate polio from this beleaguered nation. Armed with batches of oral polio vaccine and bottles of liquid Vitamin A, teams hope to reach 1.4 million children over the next three days. That means that each one of the 6,000 people giving vaccines will have to deposit two drops of vaccine and Vitamin A on the tongues of 233 kids.

73. Polio History Timeline 1934 There is a major outbreak of polio in Los Angeles. Nearly 2500 polio cases are treated from May through November of that year at Los Angeles County http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/poliotimeline.htm

The History of Polio A Hypertext Timeline This page was last updated January 21, 2005. 1789 - British physician Michael Underwood provides the first clinical description of polio, referring to it as "debility of the lower extremities." 1840 - German physician Jacob von Heine publishes a 78-page monograph in 1840 which not only describes the clinical features of the disease, but also notes that its symptoms suggest the involvement of the spinal cord. 1894 - The first major polio epidemic reported in the United States occurs in Vermont, consisting of 132 total cases, including some adults. 1908 - Polio becomes a a reportable disease entity as Austrian physicians Karl Landsteiner and E. Popper identify the polio virus. 1909 - Massachusetts begins counting polio cases. 1916 - There is a large outbreak of polio in the United States. Though the total number of affected individuals is unknown, over 9000 cases are reported in New York City alone. Attempts at controlling the disease largely involve the use of isolation and quarantine, neither of which is successful. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) contracts polio and is left with severe paralysis.

74. ESTAMOS CREANDO UN WEB NUEVO EN Contiene informaci³n sobre el s­ndrome post polio. Biograf­a, galer­a de fotos y enlaces relacionados. http://webs.ono.com/usr005/postpolio/

75. Polio polio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th Century in Adults in these three groups who have had 1 or 2 doses of polio vaccine in http://www.ecbt.org/polio.htm

Polio The Disease Polio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th Century in the United States. An epidemic in 1916 killed 6,000 people and left 27,000 more paralyzed. In the 1950's, parents refused to let their children go to movies or go swimming for fear of catching the disease. Polio is caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestinal tract. It is spread through contact with the bowel movements of an infected person (for instance, by changing diapers). Polio is most contagious from about 7-10 days before symptoms appear till about 7-10 days afterward. Polio Fact: Polio Vaccination History: A 1916 polio epidemic in the United Stated killed 6,000 people and paralyzed 27,000 more. In the early 1950's there were more than 20,000 cases of polio each year. Polio vaccination was begun in 1955 . By 1960 the number of cases had dropped to about 3,000, and by 1979 there were only about 10. The success of polio vaccination in the U.S. and other countries sparked a world-wide effort to eliminate polio. Today: No wild polio has been reported in the United States for over 20 years. But the disease is still common in some parts of the world. It would only take one case of polio from another country to bring the disease back if we were not protected by the vaccine. If the effort is to eliminate the disease from the world is successful, some day we won't need polio vaccine. Until then, we need to keep getting our children vaccinated.

76. Nigerian State Balks At Polio Campaign CNN http://cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/03/21/nigeria.polio.ap/index.html

77. CNN.com - Nigeria's Neighbors Guard Against Polio - Feb. 25, 2004 CNN http://cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/25/africa.polio.ap/index.html

International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Nigeria's neighbors guard against polio Volunteers administer polio vaccine to a child in Kaduna, Nigeria. Story Tools YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Follow the news that matters to you. Create your own alert to be notified on topics you're interested in. Or, visit Popular Alerts for suggestions. Manage alerts What is this? KANOUA, Ivory Coast (AP) Families gathered under the shade of a huge tree in the village square. They looked on cautiously at a half-dozen anti-polio campaigners, who arrived shouting through a loudspeaker: "Bring your children! It will be very quick!" But a crowd quickly developed, as mothers and fathers dragged crying children into the square hauling every child forward to receive two drops of oral vaccine upon their tongues. More than 30,000 health workers are taking part in Ivory Coast's anti-polio drive, part of a massive 10-nation emergency effort aimed at blocking a polio outbreak spreading from northern Nigeria. Three predominantly Islamic states in Nigeria's north have banned door-to-door polio immunization since October, calling it a U.S. plot to spread AIDS or infertility among Muslims.

78. Harvest Center's Post-Polio LIBRARY The POSTpolio LIBRARY will soon contain everything Drs. Bruno Frick have written for you to Post-polio Sequelae True Answers for Friends and Family. http://members.aol.com/harvestctr/pps/lib2.html

harvest center's POST-POLIO LIBRARY The POST-POLIO LIBRARY your post-polio library. More information can be found in Dr. Bruno's book, The Polio Paradox: Uncovering the Hidden History of Polio to Understand and Treat "Post-Polio Syndrome" and Chronic Fatigue published in 2002 by Warner Books. NEWSLETTER EDITORS: Feel free to reprint anything that's of interest to you. YOU HAVE OUR PERMISSION WITHOUT ASKING! We want to get information out to every polio survivor! NOTE THAT THE ARTICLES HAVE NO TABLES OR FIGURES. If you would like to reprint an article with its figures (diagrams, pictures and graphs), just e-mail us at: HarvestCtr@aol.com and we'll send the figures by e-mail or by post. BASIC PPS INFORMATION Bruno RL, Zimmerman JR. Word finding difficulty as a Post-Polio Sequelae. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2000; 79:343-348. Bruno RL. "Non-paralytic" Polio as Prelude to Post-Polio Sequelae. Post-Polio Sequelae Monograph Series. Volume 10 (2). Hackensack: Harvest Press, 2000. Bruno RL.

79. CNN.com - Nigeria Orders Polio Vaccine Tests - Oct. 29, 2003 CNN http://cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/10/29/nigeria.polio.ap/index.html

The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Nigeria orders polio vaccine tests Story Tools LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Nigerian authorities said Wednesday polio vaccines recently administered in a nationwide campaign will undergo laboratory testing to calm fears the United States is using the immunization campaign to sow AIDS and sterility among Muslims. Vice President Abubakar Atiku ordered testing on the vaccines for agents that could spread HIV or sterility, adding that international, federal and state health authorities must work together to resolve "the various issues surrounding the analysis of the polio vaccines," Nigeria's state television reported. An official in Atiku's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the order. Health workers on Friday launched a drive to immunize 15 million African children at immediate risk of contracting polio an effort hampered in Nigeria by an assertion by Islamic radicals the vaccination drive is part of a U.S. plan to decimate the Muslim population by spreading AIDS and infertility. Datti Ahmed, a physician who also leads the self-styled Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria that has spearheaded the campaign against polio immunization, told The Associated Press he welcomed the decision.

80. Communicable Disease Fact Sheet polio is a viral disease which may affect the central nervous system. Since polio immunization has become widespread, cases of polio are very rare. http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/communicable_diseases/en/polio.htm

skip to main content New York State Governor Pataki map-NY ... Department of Health Information for a Healthy New York Home Contact Help A-Z Index Search Search this site: Site Contents Health Insurance Programs Employment Opportunities Forms Grants/Funding Opportunities ... Related Sites You are Here: Home Page Communicable Disease Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis, polio) What is polio? Polio is a viral disease which may affect the central nervous system. Since polio immunization has become widespread, cases of polio are very rare. Who gets polio? Polio is more common in infants and young children and occurs under conditions of poor hygiene. However, paralysis is more common and more severe when infection occurs in older individuals. In exceedingly rare cases, oral polio vaccine has caused paralytic polio in a person who received the vaccine or in a person who was a close contact of a vaccine recipient. How is polio spread? Polio is predominately spread through the feces. What are the symptoms of polio? Infection ranges in severity from an unapparent infection to a paralytic disease which may result in death. Symptoms include fever, malaise, headache, nausea and vomiting, excruciating muscle pain and stiffness in the neck and back.

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