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At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, polio would paralyze or kill over half a million people worldwide every year. ... 3,145 people in the United States died from ...
He caught polio while in high school during a 1950s polio epidemic. [132] Paul Edgar Philippe Martin: born 1938: Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006. He caught polio in 1946, which paralysed his throat, and took almost a year to fully recover. [133] [134] Paul Joseph James Martin: 1903–1992
Many notable individuals have survived polio and often credit the prolonged immobility and residual paralysis associated with polio as a driving force in their lives and careers. [171] The disease was very well publicized during the polio epidemics of the 1950s, with extensive media coverage of any scientific advancements that might lead to a cure.
During the early 1950s the UK was rocked by a series of polio epidemics, with as many as 8,000 people suffering paralytic poliomyelitis. The epidemics ended with the introduction of the oral polio ...
The first successful demonstration of a polio vaccine was by Hilary Koprowski in 1950, with a live attenuated virus that people drank. [10] The vaccine was not approved for use in the United States, but was used successfully elsewhere. [10] The success of an inactivated (killed) polio vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk, was announced in 1955.
In the 1940s and 1950s, polio was “one of the most feared diseases,” says Lipps, “causing outbreaks that resulted in large numbers of people with permanent disability.” ... She points out ...
In the early 1950s, before Salk’s vaccine, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis each year, the CDC said. After the vaccines — there are two: trivalent inactivated ...
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...