Penyakit Polio atau Poliomielitis adalah penyakit akibat jangkitan virus yang menyebabkan kelumpuhan. Poliovirus (PV) yang menjadi ejen pembawa penyakit ini masuk ke dalam badan manusia melalui mulut dan merosakkan usus. Ia mampu memasuki saliran darah dan ke saraf pusat menyebabkan kelemahan otot dan kelumpuhan.

Nov 28, 2022 · Polio virus enters the body through the mouth, multiplying along the way and especially in the digestive tract. Polio has existed since ancient times and was documented in the written record in the 18th and 19th centuries. There are three wild types of polio virus (types 1-3), which are naturally-occurring and non-mutated strains.

Polio eradication. Polio eradication, the permanent global spread of the poliovirus and the elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes. This was because of a public health effort which began in 1988, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Rotary Foundation. [1]

Aug 11, 2022 · Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a disabling and potentially deadly disease. It is caused by the poliovirus. The virus spreads from person to person and can infect a person’s spinal cord, causing paralysis (can’t move parts of the body). There is no cure for polio, but it can be prevented with safe and effective vaccination.

Aug 15, 2016 · No one wanted to be near my family. Everybody knew of somebody who had died from polio or was crippled by it, and 1949 turned out to be a record year. At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, polio would paralyze or kill 500,000 people worldwide every year. And there was no vaccine for it, so there was no defense against this invisible, raging ...

As Offit observes, `ironically, the Cutter incident—by creating the perception among scientists and the public that Salk's vaccine was dangerous —led in part to the development of a polio vaccine that was more dangerous'. The Cutter incident had an ambivalent legacy. On the one hand, it led to the effective federal regulation of vaccines ...

Choroba Heinego-Medina – wirusowa choroba zakaźna wywoływana przez wirusa polio, przenoszona drogą fekalno-oralną[a][2]. Nazwa tej choroby wywodzi się od nazwisk dwóch uczonych, którzy tę chorobę opisali: Jakob Heine i Karl Oskar Medin . Aby rozpoznać polio, należy wyizolować i zidentyfikować wirusa, czy jest to szczep dziki, czy to zakażenie …

इस रोग का औपसर्गिक कारण एक प्रकार का विषाणु (virus) होता है, जो कफ, मल, मूत्र, दूषित जल तथा खाद्य पदार्थों में विद्यमान रहता है; मक्खियों एवं वायु द्वारा एक ...

Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.. Salk was born on October 28, 1914 in New York City to a Jewish-Irish family. He studied at the City College of New York and at the University of New York.