Articles for tag: Polio, Polio Vaccine

IPOL Polio Vaccine Ingredients

IPOL is the Tradename for the polio vaccine manufactured by Connaught Laboratories. The IPOL polio vaccine ingredients include, may not be a complete list), 3 types of polio viruses, neomycin, streptomycin, and polymyxin B, formaldehyde, and 2-phenoxyethanol, and a continuous line of monkey kidney cells. Many of the vaccine ingredients are toxic and potentially harmful. ...

What is Bulbar Poliomyelitis?

Acute poliomyelitis is a highly contagious viral disease which ranges in severity from inapparent infection to overwhelming paralytic illness and death. The virus is spread by human contact and enters through the nose or mouth, then spreading to various parts of the body. Poliomyelitis is particularly liable to affect certain parts of the spinal cord, ...

Polio: Is the End in Sight?

Polio is a paralytic disease caused by a short, single-stranded RNA virus. Poliovirus is currently found as 2 serotypes in nature: Wild PolioVirus Type1 (WPV1), and Wild PolioVirus Type 3 (WPV3), [Type 2 has been eliminated globally]. In nature, poliovirus causes poliomyelitis* only in human beings. In less than 1% of poliovirus infections, acute flaccid ...

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The Polio Virus: Lifecycle

Polio is an infectious disease that has haunted the lives of many for over 3,000 years. The first record of Poliomyelitis in the human body dates back to ancient Egypt where inhabitants of the area engraved a documented version of paralytic Poliomyelitis into stone. When indoor plumbing came into use, in the 20th century, and ...

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Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

Perhaps one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century was born on October 28, 1914 in New York City. He was the oldest of his parents’ three sons, and the child that they always had high expectations of. In fact, even Jonas Salk himself knew that he would one day grow up and ...