Polio History

Polio has been known since pre-historic times. Wall paintings in ancient Egyptian temples depict healthy individuals with paralyzed legs to walk with a cane. Roman Emperor Claudius was stricken with polio as a child and become limp all his life.

Polio is a disease caused by a virus, attacks the whole body including the muscles and nerves, causing permanent paralysis and death. the disease is spread through feces, saliva and air. Symptoms begin with fever, fever, flu, muscle aches, nausea, and sore throat.

1789

British physician Michael Underwood describes polio clinically for the first time.

1840

German physician Jacob von Heine published a 78 page note stating the involvement of the spinal cord on polio.

1894

The first reported epidemics of polio occurred in Vermont, USA.

1908

Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner identified the polio virus.

1916

Polio spreads in the U.S. exceptional. In New York alone there are 9000 cases were reported.

1943

The Sister Kenny Foundation was established. Kenny used as the standard procedure for the treatment of polio patients in the U.S..

1948

Laboratories Salk Scientist funded Sarah Mellon Foundation to be one of the four laboratories that received the award on the polio virus research.

1952

A total of 58,000 cases of polio occurred in the U.S.. Initial version of the Salk vaccine success in Pennsylvania, USA

1954

Large-scale trials Salk vaccine funded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

1955

Successful vaccine trial reported Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. of the University of Michigan, USA. Vaccination programs began to run across the U.S.

1958-1959

Field trials prove successful, the Sabin oral vaccine using an attenuated virus effectively

1962

Sabin vaccine Salk vaccine replaced the terbuktilebih resistant lana

1988

With an average of 350,000 cases of polio in the world. WHO to eradicate polio in the world until 2000.

1993

The total number of polio cases worldwide dropped to 100000. Almost all of the occurrence in Asia and Africa.

2000

War, natural disasters, and poverty di30 nenghalangi African countries in Asia eradication of polio eradication in polio.Target reschedule until 2005.

2001

As many as 575 million children vaccinated in 94 countries.

2004

Health ministers from six countries still affected by polio hold a meeting to take the jawaban step of polio eradication. Even so, come 1170 cases of polio, 760 of which occur in Nigeria.

2005

Polio spreads from Nigeria to Sudan with 105 cases.

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