Polio epidemic in the 1940 s and 1950 s

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      Large polio epidemics caused panic in the 1940's and 1950's in industrialized countries such as the US and Western Europe. In 1954 Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that greatly decreased the occurrence of the disease, and in 1963 an oral vaccine was developed that led to it's eradication in the US.


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      An example of this is polio (McMichael, Neira, & Bertollini, 2009). Polio was officially eradicated in the United States in the early 1970s. The disease can be prevented with a vaccine and this campaign was used throughout the 1950s and 60s to lower the incidence rate.


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      Polio Vaccine- In the early 1950’s, Jonas Salk invented the vaccine for polio, a crippling disease. The most famous person affected by polio was President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Agriculture. Barbed Wire- Used to fence in ranches on on the Great. Plains, eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.


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      The first polio epidemic in the United States, in 1916, left 27,000 people paralyzed and 9,000 dead. Over the next 40 years, polio epidemics struck every summer across the country. The worst year was 1952, when almost 60,000 new polio cases were reported.


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      In the wake of the 1950’s polio epidemic and as veterans assimilated back into society, national attention focused on civilian needs. Federal rehabilitation management was moved from the United States Veterans Administration to the new Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Welch, 1995).


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      I. Polio epidemic of 1940s A. “infantile paralysis” or poliomyelitis. B. 19,000 cases in U.S. in 1944. C. Mostly affected young adults and children. D. Some recovered completely, others had permanent disabilities. I. Career of Robert Kerr. A. attorney and oilman. B. U.S. Senate ’48, ’54 and ‘60 (ask students for other points to add )


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      The 1940’s brought important changes to rural Livingston County through electricity. In January of 1940, the REA began stringing wire east of Chillicothe. Beginning in April with a few families east of town, the REA gradually brought electric current to rural homes and …


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      Women worked in a move to ban horror comic books, make school kits for Europe, and set up and ran polio clinics since 1955 Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine. The need for relief and rehabilitation had by no means slacked off, and P.E.O.s continued to be of service thorough their churches and such national agencies as CARE.


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      To be sure, polio as it was known in the first half of the 20th century does not exist today. However, declines following polio peaks in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s had been underway for a period of years by the time the vaccine was introduced. VACCINATION TRUTH #6:


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