Polio Notes — socrateslee13

• “It was a fact that if the world was free of polio at one point it would be free forever.”However if this is true than that would indicate that nothing can come back, once it is eliminated it is gone. But that may not be true in terms of bacteria because some bacteria rather than being eliminated, the disease lies dormant.
• “This generation is not ready to eradicate polio.”This is stating that because of the circumstances, or the resources around us that polio is not capable of being eliminated. However this might not be true because through research, data, and tests we can change circumstances. One example would be how at one point measles was an epidemic and we were able eliminate this disease and the same is possible for polio
• Lack of vaccination due to religious reasons or because people choose not to get the vaccination such as herd immunity. Herd immunity is when the majority is immune however a select few are not such as 95%  of the population is immune while 5% is not. Herd immunity has setbacks because in doing so instead of people getting things that could prevent diseases such as polio and measles because people say they don’t need a vaccination to since every one else is vaccination
• The religious aspect for muslims is taken into consideration because there is a fact that states there is pork within the  vaccination
• The united states went into Pakistan to give vaccinations to children to cure polio. However this was a cover up because the people conducting the vaccinations were U.S. spies trying to gather information about Osama Bin Ladin. Now when the U.S. desires and attempts to help Pakistan with its epidemic, Pakistan does not trust the U.S. for their offer to help because before there true intensions were not to help Pakistan but for the U.S.’s own gain
• “The world is too fragmented to come together and eradicate a disease.” This may not be a true statement because people can come together out of the goodness of their hearts as well as using force to make people come together.

Practice Opening

The world is capable of eliminating polio within the next 20 years due to fact we are able to come together as a population and eradicate the disease. We are capable of eliminating the disease in various ways because we can come together either by the goodness of our hearts, by force or by the technology and research that we gather. Due to the research we gather more people will be informed and know what is required to eradicate the disease.