“Polio trapped 3 year old to iron lung for nearly 60 years:
Making sure Polio is no longer a threat”
~ Cynthia G. Creel
April 3, 2013
My Story:
As a kid I did not mind getting a Polio vaccine. It was quite yummy. So much better than a shot in the arm. My mom and aunts used to talk about other kids who came down with Polio and how they had been changed forever. I discovered as an adult some of my friends only 15 or so years older than me had to spend time in an iron lung to survive and heal enough to live without the iron lung. If I had not been told by my friends I would have never guessed. I felt Polio was just something that happened a long time ago.
Polio affects:
video of Dianna Odell interview in 2008:Polio changed lives and culture seen today:
Polio has been around maybe it is as old as dirt. In a Yale University study (2) in the 1920’s to 1930’s a group of disabled polio survivors started a campaign to alleviate a general negative message that prevailed over American society. Popular images were used in this cultural war also critiquing the medical care offered most disabled patients, and the training of medical professionals to securing a change in attitudes and increased care. The efforts were only needed for less then a decade leading to the development of the March of Dimes.
By the 1950’s attitudes had changed towards the disabled, but the disease was still at war against the unprotected leading to a community of hospital rooms full of children in iron lungs.
The CDC (6) reports before the vaccinations to prevent polio about 13,000 to 20,000 cases from paralytic polio were reported each year affecting mostly children. In 1988 the World Health Assembly goal of eradicating polio worldwide. With the a declining global cases of Polio dropping from 350,000 in 1988 to 187 cases in 2012 (as of November 14, 2012) with Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan still being affected.
Success or rise up once more:
From the efforts of many Polio will be extinct as the dinosaurs soon. Or will it? According to the CDC (6) In 2005 a women (22 years old) from Arizona, USA contracted polio while traveling in Central and South America. She was treated in Costa Rica and by March 9th was transported to Phoenix, Arizona to be observed. Was it only luck that she didn’t arrive back in her home before Polio hit? How different would the outcome have been?
Until the threat is completely gone it is possible for Polio to change into something just a little different so those who are vaccinated are no longer protected. Some people electing not to get a vaccine for various reasons leaving us at risk to be susceptible to the Polio affects. We could end up living in a time that is very similar to Polio in the 1920’s to the 1950.s.
Final words:
Millions have been affected by Polio. At one time there was no real medical help that could offer. Leaving each person’s ability to fight off the invisible attacker the only defense. It is just one example of how resilient nature and man are. My hope is the effort to eliminate the threat of Polio will be successful in protecting the world from the effects of paralyzes or death. All costing society much in real dollars and emotional struggle or loss. Until then it seems as if Polio may only be one airplane ride away from the United States or any other designation.
The beyond those who were succumbed to Polio, the largest effect polio had on society not counting the cultural of rejection and acceptance of this disease was the lost of productivity from many who never had a chance to become productive. Like any disabling disease with no solution to solve before damage can be corrected is the cost of taking a person away from productivity to being dependent on society or others, with a large emotional and dollar cost.
It is the combine effort of many with the ultimate goal of solving a problem for the improvement of many that will make this idea of eliminating Polio. There are many paths to protect from vaccinations, being proactive and stepping onto the path of True Health Remember every dollar counts as a vote so vote with every dollar spent to support a world you would like to live in.
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Sources:
(1) http://blogs.cdc.gov/genomics/2013/01/24/connection-between-polio-eradication-and-primary-immunodeficiency/
(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753689
(3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zZfP2X6wT5Q
(4) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-lifetime-in-an-iron-lung-courage-in-the-face-of-a-cruel-disease-836775.html
(5) http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/whatifstop.htm
(6) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5504a2.htm
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