Polio
noun
A very serious illness that causes a person's body to become weak or paralyzed.
The world has been on a mission to eradicate polio for more than 30 years.
Often appears as...
- poliomyelitis
- polio vaccine
noun
A very serious illness that causes a person's body to become weak or paralyzed.
The world has been on a mission to eradicate polio for more than 30 years.
Often appears as...
- poliomyelitis
- polio vaccine
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Pro Tip 1/3Disease Severity
Emphasizes the seriousness of the disease, often causing lifelong disability.
After contracting polio, many patients required long-term rehabilitation.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Understand that polio was more common in the past, especially before the vaccine was developed.
Polio outbreaks in the early 20th century caused panic and social disruption.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Relevance
Polio is rare today due to successful vaccination campaigns, but it's not completely eradicated.
Polio cases have significantly decreased worldwide, yet some regions still fight the disease.
Pro Tip 1/3Disease Severity
Emphasizes the seriousness of the disease, often causing lifelong disability.
After contracting polio, many patients required long-term rehabilitation.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Understand that polio was more common in the past, especially before the vaccine was developed.
Polio outbreaks in the early 20th century caused panic and social disruption.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Relevance
Polio is rare today due to successful vaccination campaigns, but it's not completely eradicated.
Polio cases have significantly decreased worldwide, yet some regions still fight the disease.
Pro Tip 1/3Disease Severity
Emphasizes the seriousness of the disease, often causing lifelong disability.
After contracting polio, many patients required long-term rehabilitation.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Context
Understand that polio was more common in the past, especially before the vaccine was developed.
Polio outbreaks in the early 20th century caused panic and social disruption.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Relevance
Polio is rare today due to successful vaccination campaigns, but it's not completely eradicated.
Polio cases have significantly decreased worldwide, yet some regions still fight the disease.
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Why giving away our...
and read up to the global data and see if they match, and I think what I've taught him is to take that data and meet with people on the ground to understand, can you actually deliver that vaccine? Can you get a woman to accept those polio drops in her child's mouth? Because the delivery piece is every bit as important as the science.
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Learning from smallpox:...
to ensure that polio will never paralyze another child. Disease eradication is one public health effort that benefits all of humanity and challenges us to work together as a global community. Beyond eliminating specific diseases, eradication programs benefit local populations
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Bruce Aylward: How we'll...
living in these countries. So it was a massive effort. The second challenge we had was -- in contrast to the smallpox vaccine, which was very stable, and a single dose protected you for life -- the polio vaccine is incredibly fragile. It deteriorates so quickly in the tropics
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How we must respond to...
Sadly, it may interrupt and the polio situation might get worse a little bit because of the distraction here. We're using a lot of the great capacity that was built up for those polio activities to try and help the developing countries respond to this very well.
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What happens when you...
Doctors thought it was a new form of polio. Since then, there have been more than 70 outbreaks documented around the world, of a strikingly similar post-infectious disease. All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women,
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3 ways to build a happy...
So in a modern society, we know that prevention is better than cure. We vaccinate against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles. We have awareness campaigns for melanoma, stroke, diabetes -- all important campaigns.
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The danger of science...
in a way that no war ever has. It's gone. It's vanished. We vanquished it. Puff. In the rich world, diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago no longer exist, hardly. Diphtheria, rubella, polio
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Bill Gates: The...
in terms of what the emissions that come out of those activities are. During the same time frame we'll have advances in medicine of curing cancer and finishing polio and malaria and all sorts of things.
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Bringing critical care...
child Jaisal was born so far he's received his first dose of several basic vaccines against diseases like measles and polio and even though some of those shots stung they will help protect him
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Toddler Copes With...
polio and it was they didn't hear anything all they heard was polio and they left you know and so now I said well you know it's a virus that like polio but it's not the live polio virus
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Why giving away our...
and read up to the global data and see if they match, and I think what I've taught him is to take that data and meet with people on the ground to understand, can you actually deliver that vaccine? Can you get a woman to accept those polio drops in her child's mouth? Because the delivery piece is every bit as important as the science.
Video examples
Learning from smallpox:...
to ensure that polio will never paralyze another child. Disease eradication is one public health effort that benefits all of humanity and challenges us to work together as a global community. Beyond eliminating specific diseases, eradication programs benefit local populations
Video examples
Bruce Aylward: How we'll...
living in these countries. So it was a massive effort. The second challenge we had was -- in contrast to the smallpox vaccine, which was very stable, and a single dose protected you for life -- the polio vaccine is incredibly fragile. It deteriorates so quickly in the tropics
Video examples
How we must respond to...
Sadly, it may interrupt and the polio situation might get worse a little bit because of the distraction here. We're using a lot of the great capacity that was built up for those polio activities to try and help the developing countries respond to this very well.
Video examples
What happens when you...
Doctors thought it was a new form of polio. Since then, there have been more than 70 outbreaks documented around the world, of a strikingly similar post-infectious disease. All of these outbreaks have tended to disproportionately affect women,
Video examples
3 ways to build a happy...
So in a modern society, we know that prevention is better than cure. We vaccinate against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles. We have awareness campaigns for melanoma, stroke, diabetes -- all important campaigns.
Video examples
The danger of science...
in a way that no war ever has. It's gone. It's vanished. We vanquished it. Puff. In the rich world, diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago no longer exist, hardly. Diphtheria, rubella, polio
Video examples
Bill Gates: The...
in terms of what the emissions that come out of those activities are. During the same time frame we'll have advances in medicine of curing cancer and finishing polio and malaria and all sorts of things.
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Bringing critical care...
child Jaisal was born so far he's received his first dose of several basic vaccines against diseases like measles and polio and even though some of those shots stung they will help protect him
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Toddler Copes With...
polio and it was they didn't hear anything all they heard was polio and they left you know and so now I said well you know it's a virus that like polio but it's not the live polio virus
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Charlie Haden
American Musician
I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
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Ksenia Solo
Latvian Actress
I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.
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Francis Ford Coppola
American Director
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
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Naveen Jain
Indian Businessman
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
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Itzhak Perlman
Israeli Musician
I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
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Ben Lewin
Australian Director
I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.
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Seth Berkley
American Scientist
We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
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Jenny McCarthy
American Model
If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
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David Alan Grier
American Comedian
My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
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Charlie Haden
American Musician
I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
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Ksenia Solo
Latvian Actress
I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.
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Francis Ford Coppola
American Director
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
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Naveen Jain
Indian Businessman
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
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Itzhak Perlman
Israeli Musician
I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.
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Ben Lewin
Australian Director
I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.
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Seth Berkley
American Scientist
We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
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Jenny McCarthy
American Model
If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
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David Alan Grier
American Comedian
My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
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