POLIOMYELITIS

History

• Polio was first documented by Jonas Salk in 1840
• Jakob Heine and Karl Osker discovered the pathogen.

Symptoms

• Sometimes there are no symptoms.
• muscle weakness
• loss of muscle
• muscle quiver
• fatigue

The Vaccine

• There are two different types, Inactived Polio (IPV) and Oral Polio (OPV)
• Children get 4 doses of IPV at 2 months, 4 months, 6-18 months, and 4-6 years old.

OPV AND IPV

• OPV is taken by mouth
• IPV is given an injection in the arm or leg.

The countries that Polio is mainly found in are Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan.

Types of Polio

• Spinal Polio- causes paralysis in the arms or legs.
• Bulbar- affects neurons for sight, vision, taste, swallowing, and breathing
• Bulbospinal- both spinal and bulbar

RECOVERY

• incubation: 7-21days
• child death rate: 2%-5%
• adult death rate: 15%-30%
• can't be cured, but treatment may help

One way you can get polio is through contact with stool from an infected person.

FACTS

• 95% of cases show no symptoms
• 1 in 200 infections lead to irreversible paralysis
• polio cases have decreased 99% since 1988
• the world health assembly launched a global polio eradication initiative (GPEI)
• 50% victims were under 5

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• historyofvaccines.org
• dosomething.org