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Priscilla Rosila Ms. Thinnes English 11 Period 4
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Priscilla RosilaMs. ThinnesEnglish 11Period 4
• Polio is an infectious disease which destroys the nerve cells that enable the muscles to work in the body.
• Symptoms: fever, malaise, headache, sore throat, vomiting, stiff neck, stiff back, deep muscle pain, and abnormal sensations.
• Can cause paralysis-the wasting of muscle tissue-and can cause deformity.
• The disease mainly occurs in children.
• Polio was once an epidemic in the U.S.
• Vaccines are weakened or killed pathogens that cause the body to make antibodies and remember the virus. In Afghanistan, A boy is vaccinated against
polio.
• American physician Jonas Salk invented a vaccine for Polio in 1953.
• The vaccine was tested on monkeys.
• In August 1954, four million vaccinations were given.
• In 1960, Albert Sabin created an oral vaccine for Polio.
• Sabin’s vaccine became more widely used. An Australian girl receives the Salk
Polio vaccine.
• The vaccines reduced the cases of Polio in the U.S. drastically.
• There were 58,000 cases of polio in 1952; 2,500 cases of polio in 1960; 61 cases of polio in 1965; and in 1994 Polio was eradicated from the U.S.
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