POLIOMYELITIS

ABOUT POLIO

• The pathogen I chose was polio virus
• It is a virus
• It is commonly called polio

HISTORY OF POLIO

• On June 17, 1894 The scientist Michael Underwood was the first person to describe polio
• It first appeared in Europe and the United States around the 1900s

MORE HISTORY OF POLIO

• The number of people effected by this disease worldwide each year is about 60 cases
• The mortality rate is 2%-5% in children and 15% - 30% in adults
• The incubation period is commonly 6-20 days with a 3- 35 day range

WAYS TO KEEP SAFE

• The way polio is transmitted is though person- to- person contact
• Most people have no symptoms or very mild and some go unrecognized
• There is no cure but there is treatment

QUICK FACTS

• Theodore Roosevelt got polio in 1921
• Salk the inventor of the vaccine to kill polio first tested him and his family
• Jonas Salk invented the vaccine
• Polio is being tested to treat cancer
• In 1952 the worst recorded epidemic 3,145 people died including 1,873 children in the United States died from polio