Polio Notes- Jsoccer5

Lecture Notes

• Children should be vaccinated prior to the age of 5 as this is when they are most vulnerable to getting the virus.
• The virus is introduced in the mouth and comes out in the intestines.
• It use to be a massive global problem, paralyzing many people.
• Polio is now gone in almost 99% of the world.
• It only lives in humans, and doesn’t live outside the body for very long and once eradicated for a minute it will be gone for forever.
• It is way to hard to immunize everyone because of war and third world country.
• Because of war there was a serious outbreak of polio that spread to Iraq creating the children there to be vulnerable.
• Polio is only in 4 countries currently
• Fewer than 200 cases of polio
• Due to conspiracy theory that mass immunization is bad makes it so that it can not be eradicated completely.
• A rumor was created that the vaccine was containing pork and that muslims could not take this, cause many people to not be vaccinated.
• Because of the CIA spies used the polio vaccine to find Osama Binladin and for a long time after people of those areas did not trust anyone coming in to give vaccines.
• the Vaccine needs to be cold, administered by drops on the tounge, and there is never too much or too little, often has to be done 3 times.
• India has accomplished many times to mass immunize.
• It is extremely expensive to administer millions of vaccines.
• When people no longer think polio will affect anyone, because there are much more serious diseases killing our children, people no longer vaccinate.
• California is one of the few states that makes it easy to not vaccinate your child so they are more vulnerable, which is why there was an outbreak of measles in Disney Land, which then caused an outbreaks in NY and Canada and at least 8 other states.
• either 250 people purposefully get polio to get rid of it completely or then multiple hundred possibly thousands will get it a year.
• there was a time period that people believe vaccinating children from polio will cause autism but since this paper was released 10 of the 12 authors have recinded their relation to this theory.

Practice Opening: 

Polio is a very deadly disease that has a cure. While it has a cure there is very little chance that it will ever be completely eradicated due to less developed countries and people feeling they no longer need to vaccinated from this disease as they have never seen it. Because of these circumstances polio will continue to spread worldwide never coming to a complete eradication anytime soon.