“WORLD POLIO DAY”
(OCTOBER 24TH)
(to commemorate birth of ‘jonas salk’)
(who was actually born on ’28 october 1914′)
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(developed the ‘polio vaccine’)
(“our hero!”)
(says al formerly crippled children in unison)
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(“poliomyelitis”, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the ‘poliovirus’)
(in about 0.5 percent of cases there is muscle weakness resulting in an inability to move)
(this can occur over a few hours to a few days)
(the weakness most often involves the legs but may less commonly involve the muscles of the head, neck and diaphragm)
(many but not all people fully recover)
(in those with muscle weakness about 2 to 5 percent of children and 15 to 30 percent of adults die)
(another 25 percent of people have minor symptoms such as fever and a sore throat and up to 5 percent have headache, neck stiffness and pains in the arms and legs)
(these people are usually back to normal within one or two weeks)
(in up to 70 percent of infections there are no symptoms)
(years after recovery post-polio syndrome may occur, with a slow development of muscle weakness similar to that which the person had during the initial infection)
(“poliovirus” is usually spread from person to person through infected fecal matter entering the mouth)
(it may also be spread by food or water containing human feces and less commonly from infected saliva)
(those who are infected may spread the disease for up to six weeks even if no symptoms are present)
(the disease may be diagnosed by finding the virus in the feces or detecting antibodies against it in the blood)
(the disease only occurs naturally in humans)
(the disease is preventable with the ‘polio vaccine’; however, a number of doses are required for it to be effective)
(the “US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” recommends polio vaccination boosters for travelers and those who live in countries where the disease is occurring)
(once infected there is no specific treatment)
(in 2016, polio affected 42 people, while there were about 350,000 cases in 1988)
(in 2014 the disease was only spreading between people in ‘Afghanistan’, ‘Nigeria’, and ‘Pakistan’)
(“get with the fucking ‘program’, you backwards nations!”)
(“what ‘program’?”)
(all nations in unison: “OUR program!!!”)
(great britain delegate gently pulls incensed nigerian delegate aside and delicately begins explaining the existence of a ‘polio vaccine'”)
(in 2015 ‘nigeria had stopped the spread of wild poliovirus but it reoccurred in 2016)
“d’oh!”
(deena: “well duh!”)
(rishi: “well done”)
(“poliomyelitis” has existed for thousands of years, with depictions of the disease in ancient art)
(the disease was first recognized as a distinct condition by ‘Michael Underwood’ in 1789 and the virus that causes it was first identified in 1908 by ‘Karl Landsteiner’)
(major outbreaks started to occur in the late 19th century in ‘Europe’ and the ‘United States’)
(in the 20th century it became one of the most worrying childhood diseases in these areas)
(the first polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s by ‘jonas salk’)
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(it is hoped that vaccination efforts and early detection of cases will result in global eradication of the disease by ‘2018’)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥