Experiencing The Polio Epidemic

Summer Heights and Temperatures In the mid-September sometime in the 1980s, there are children under normal circumstances, many people waiting for sneaking into the huge indoor pool of Mission Beach Plunge . The only people in the pool can only look at the clear water and I wonder what kind of fatal monster is hidden deep inside. In the midst of the summer of 1952, it was in the midst of polio epidemics, more than 60,000 people attacked in the United States alone, more than 3,000 people died.

It was the peak of the polio epidemic of 1952. Polio is a viral disease that causes spasm. Children all over the world have lost their ability to walk. In the early stages of the virus, it was infected with the struggle of respiration. Normally use iron lung, tank mask. After all, Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine, and by 1962 the incidence of polio has declined. Because of vaccination, the United States has not developed polio since 1979. There are many other health outbreaks that have struck our country, causing illness and death. If we are afraid that we should be preventable, it is a wide range of diseases affecting our society. Vaccines are measures to prevent disease. They allow our immune system to develop immunity against harmful diseases before the disease can hurt us. Immunization is safe and effective - the process of developing, testing and approving the widespread use of vaccines is long and comprehensive, aimed at creating safe and widely used vaccines.

At the peak of the polio epidemic in 1952, nearly 60,000 cases of over 3,000 deaths in the United States alone have been reported. However, due to large-scale vaccination, polio occurring through wild-type polio or natural infection was eradicated from the United States in 1979 and from the Western hemisphere in 1991. In paralytic polio, the virus leaves the intestines, enters the bloodstream and attacks the nerves (In abortion or asymptomatic polio, the virus usually does not pass through the intestines.) The virus affects the nerves controlling limb muscles and muscles needed for breathing, causing breathing problems and paralysis of the arms and legs.

Polio is a disease that affects humans throughout the recorded history, attacking the nervous system and causing various degrees of paralysis. Because viruses spread easily, the epidemic is commonplace in the early decades of the 20th century. The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894. By the 20th century, thousands of people were attacked each year. In the beginning of the 20th century, treatment was limited to quarantine and infamous "iron lung", metal coffin type equipment to aid breathing. Children, especially babies, are most affected, but adults, including 39-year-old President Franklin Roosevelt who suffered polio in 1921, are often affected.