Polio history in the 1950s

    • [DOCX File]The postwar era witnessed tremendous economic growth and ...

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      1950s PROSPERITY. The postwar era witnessed tremendous economic growth and rising social contentment and conformity. Yet in the midst of such increasing affluence and comfortable domesticity, social critics expressed a growing sense of unease with American culture in the 1950s. ... Polio Vaccine-Developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955 ...



    • [DOC File]POLIO THIS WEEK: SCORE BOARD

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      When the vaccine was introduced in the United States in the 1950s, polls indicated that polio was one of the nation's two greatest fears, second only to the fear of atomic war. And with good reason: In the 1952 U.S. polio epidemic, 58,000 cases were reported, with 3,145 deaths and 21,269 instances of permanent, disabling paralysis.


    • [DOCX File]Appalachian State University

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      Polio vaccine became widely available in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Hundreds of thousands of school children and adults were vaccinated for polio. Here is a nurse from the Pitt County health department giving a polio shot before we had the sugar cubes. 82. READ UNC SON. 83


    • [DOC File]The Cold War and the 1950's TEST - Weebly

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      19. American society in the 1950s expected women to. a. take part-time jobs. b. manage the household. c. go to college. d. work in day-care centers. 20. Rock-and-roll gave the young people of the 1950s. a. a way to conform with their parents’ expectations. b. the values they needed to live through depression and war. c. a stable and secure ...


    • [DOC File]July 24, 2009 FEMA Emergency Management Higher …

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      School-age children will be a key target population for a pandemic flu vaccine in the fall, and they may be vaccinated at school in a mass campaign not seen since the polio epidemics of the 1950s…. Commonwealth of Australia. Government, Department of Health and Aging.


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      Due to wide-spread use of effective vaccination it is seldom seen in its acute phase. Applicants with residuals from the epidemics of the 1950s are not uncommon. The main concern today is development of the “Post-polio Syndrome”, a late complication characterized by pain, fatigue, and increasing weakness of previously affected muscles.


    • [DOC File]PUBLIC GOODS: UP-DATING THE DEFINITION

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      For example, the polio vaccines were never patent protected. In developed countries, polio incidence was reduced by 86% between 1955 and 1957; a comparable reduction was only achieved in poor countries after an eradication effort was launched in 1988. See Arhin-Tenkorang and Conceição (2003).


    • [DOC File]Scientifically Based Research -- U.S. Department of Education

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      That's way too big of a question for me to try to answer, but there is an interesting vignette, I guess, a part of the story that has to do with the Salk vaccine for polio. In the early studies in the '40s and early '50s on the Salk vaccine, the studies seemed to show basically that the vaccine wasn't effective.


    • [DOCX File]Art History, Artists, and Photographers

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      Biography of painter Nell Blaine (1922-1996), who was paralyzed due to polio at the age of thirty-seven. Discusses the impact of her visual impairments on her perception of the world, her work in the United States and Europe, and the art she created after contracting polio. 2019.


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