History Of Polio

Polio is a virus that may cause the victim to be paralyzed. “In the 1950s Jonas Salk created a vaccine that was 80-90% effective in preventing Polio”, as said in the book History of Poliomyelitis by John Paul. Now in the 21st century Polio is very rare and there is zero known cases in the US. Jonas Salk used many different versions of the virus to create different Vaccines that could possibly work in destroying polio. Before the creation of the Polio vaccine it was not rare for someone to have been diagnosed. Daniel Salk, Jonas’s eldest son, was diagnosed with Polio, which caused him to experiment on his family first. Many kids were being affected by polio and many people wanted to find a way to prevent the virus, which is exactly what Jonas Edward Salk did. Salk created the Polio Vaccine to prevent the future generations from having

Many people were scared to come out of there homes in fear that they would “catch” poliomyelitis. The impact of no one coming out of their homes’ was no one was moving in fear of the virus. This caused the tourist companies, Real Estate and small businesses to lose money. Jobs were also a problem that people diagnosed with polio had to deal with, basically the people affected by Polio were never guaranteed a future. “All those people that were stricken with polio were out of the work force.” As said by Nora Hetterick. The IPV also helped the world save money, if eight million people were vaccinated, that means over billions of dollars are saved on treatments and there are gains in productivity. Since the year 1988 over 99% of polio was reduced, and in several years polio will be eradicated, only small, low income countries have yet to be treated. A little more than 200 cases have been filed since the vaccine ,and all of the cases have occurred to people over fifteen years of age. Polio ,in very short terms, was a pandemic until Jonas