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| | The Clevedon Ventilator and Poliomyelitis |
 | | Bower AG and Associates (1950) A Concept of Poliomyelitis Based on Observations and Treatment of 6000 Cases in a Four-Year Period. | | | As we felt that the application of modern principles of anaesthesia to the problem of obstructed airways and respiratory insufficiency in poliomyelitis might improve our results anaesthetists were invited to join our staff, the first being Dr. | | | Exposure at this stage, which was normal in populations living in unsanitary conditions, almost invariably led to lifelong natural immunity. |
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| | The Poison Cause of Poliomyelitis and Obstructions |
| | Some investigators have as a matter of fact pointed out that human poliomyelitis and the disease produced in experimental animals from human material, etc. are not the same disease. | | | (1932) pointed out that some authors thought that poliomyelitis is a disease of gastrointestinal orgin which might follow the ingestion of foodstuffs. | | | I do not intend here to praise good work that has been done, but more to emphasize the gaps in our knowledge of the disease in the hope that others may be encouraged to work on the subject which sorely needs some extra attention. |
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| | THE STORY OF THE SALK ANTI-POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE BY M. BEDDOW BAYLY, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. |
| | On the other hand, the whole of Dr. Sabin’s claims as to the effectiveness of his vaccine are based upon estimations of the antibodies present (as the result of vaccination) in the blood-serum of the chimpanzees and human "volunteers" taking part in the experiment. | | | There can be little doubt, therefore, that even the vaccination of children against poliomyelitis itself may provide the very conditions which favour an attack and so increase the incidence of the disease. | | | This suggested the use of serum from human beings who had had poliomyelitis for the treatment of those who had contracted it. |
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| | Lincolnshire Post-Polio Library [Poliomyelitis] |
| | Following the meningitic phase, most patients develop a spinal type of poliomyelitis, in which severe muscle pain arises, often with muscle spasms, then weakness and fasciculation develops. | | | Longterm changes in the spinal cord of patients with old poliomyelitis: evidence of active disease. | | | Skeletal deformity due to previous poliomyelitis contributes to the development of multiple peripheral nerve entrapments leading to functional deterioration. |
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| | Poliomyelitis Prevention in the United States |
| | After an interval of 30-40 years, 25%-40% of persons who contract paralytic poliomyelitis in childhood may experience muscle pain and exacerbation of existing weakness or develop new weakness or paralysis. | | | Although persons vaccinated with IPV can subsequently be infected with and excrete either wild-type strains or vaccine-virus (attenuated) strains in their feces, considerable evidence from epidemiologic studies has demonstrated that vaccinating with IPV diminishes circulation of wild poliovirus in the community. | | | Depending on the sites of paralysis, poliomyelitis can be classified as spinal, bulbar, or spino-bulbar disease. |
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| | PCRM >> Research >> Animal Experimentation Issues >> Poliomyelitis |
| | Polio (short for poliomyelitis) is an example of how human clinical research, along with advancements in cellular research, led to the near eradication of an epidemic. | | | Human clinical research was vital to the understanding of poliomyelitis. | | | Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. |
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| | eMedicine - Acute Poliomyelitis : Article by Yingqi Xing, MD, MS |
| | Physical Therapy: Physical therapy plays an important role in rehabilitation for patients with poliomyelitis. | | | The enteroviruses of poliomyelitis infect the human intestinal tract mainly through the fecal-oral route (hand to mouth). | | | Medicine is a constantly changing science and not all therapies are clearly established. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Poliomyelitis |
| | Polio immunization (vaccine) effectively prevents poliomyelitis in most people (immunization is over 90% effective). | | | Call your health care provider if your child's polio immunization (vaccine) is not up-to-date. | | | Calling your health care provider Return to top |
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| | ANTERIOR POLIOMYELITIS |
| | Anterior poliomyelitis is an acute infectious fever caused by a virus affecting commonly the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord causing paralysis of muscles of the limbs and spine. | | | Total functional assessment of the limbs is made before planning the treatment. | | | Poliomyelitis can be effectively prevented by immunisation of children with SABIN live attenuated oral vaccine. |
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| | Infectious Diseases - Poliomyelitis (Polio) |
| | In addition, symptoms may include the child feeling sick for a couple of days, and then appear to improve before getting sick again with pain of the muscles in the neck, trunk, arms, and legs, and stiffness in the neck and along the spine. | | | Specific treatment for poliomyelitis will be determined by your child's physician based on: | | | The symptoms of poliomyelitis may resemble other problems or medical conditions. |
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| | 1855 — First description by Duchenne of the pathological process in poliomyelitis with the involvement of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. | | | The problem is greatly underestimated by economically rich countries, as probably less than 1 in 100 patients with poliomyelitis in developing countries are even notified. | | | Poliomyelitis is said to have first occurred nearly 6,000 years ago in the time of the Ancient Egyptians. |
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| | eMedicine - Poliomyelitis : Article by Benjamin Estrada, MD |
| | A risk for development of poliomyelitis is present in those individuals who receive this vaccine and are immunocompromised. | | | Although most cases of poliomyelitis (90-95%) are inapparent, 5-10% of patients who acquire this infection develop symptoms. | | | Cashman NR, Maselli R, Wollmann RL: Late denervation in patients with antecedent paralytic poliomyelitis. |
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| | Because no drug developed so far has proved effective, treatment is entirely symptomatic. | | | Appearing an average of 30 to 40 years after the initial illness, PPS causes fatigue, muscle weakness, and muscle and joint pain. | | | An estimated 20 to 40 percent of patients who initially recover from poliomyelitis later develop post-polio syndrome (PPS). |
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| | Genetic sequencing is ongoing to determine the origin of the virus. | | | One case of poliomyelitis has been reported in Mogadishu, Somalia where a 15-month-old girl had onset of paralysis on 12 Jul 2005. | | | ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases |
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| | Medical References: Polio |
| | Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. | | | In 1955, it was announced that the Salk vaccine, which was developed with March of Dimes funding, was safe and effective against this disabling, sometimes fatal infection. | | | Polio (short for poliomyelitis, once called infantile paralysis), used to strike thousands of children each year. |
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| | Poliomyelitis |
| | Poliomyelitis (polio) is an acute illness following gastro-intestinal infection by one of the three types of poliovirus. | | | Poliomyelitis is an acute illness following gastro-intestinal infection by one of the three types of poliovirus (the types are called 1, 2, and 3). | | | Home > For Consumers > Conditions and Diseases > Communicable Diseases Information > Factsheets > Poliomyelitis |
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| | MSN Encarta - Poliomyelitis |
| | In addition to the fever and other symptoms seen in abortive poliomyelitis, nonparalytic poliomyelitis causes pain and stiffness in the neck and back. | | | The shortened term polio is commonly used by the public and medical professionals, and the disease has also been referred to as infantile paralysis. | | | Sometimes, however, the virus may invade the nervous system, causing more severe forms of the disease. |
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| | Post-Polio Health International - The Late Effects of Polio: An Overview |
| | The survivors of poliomyelitis may experience symptoms that include: | | | By the mid-'80s, health professionals and policymakers recognized these new problems as being real and not "only in the patients' minds." Studies on this phenomenon called "post-polio syndrome" have been – and are still being – conducted in research institutions and medical centers. | | | According to the World Health Organization (WHO), no more than 1,500 cases of acute poliomyelitis were reported in 2001. |
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| | INACTIVATED POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE |
| | Although patients with immune deficiency diseases such as combined immunodeficiency, hypogammaglobulinemia and agammaglobulinemia, those with altered immune states due to diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma or generalized malignancy and those with immune systems compromised by therapy with corticosteroids, alkylating drugs, antimetabolites or radiationmay not develop a protective immune response, Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine should be administered. | | | Precautions: Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine is the vaccine of choice for immunizing immunodeficient patients and their household contacts. | | | Because of the possibility of immunodeficiency in other members of a household in which there has been one such case, Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine should be used to immunize subsequent children until the immune status of the recipient and of other children in the family is documented. |
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| | poliomyelitis - definition of poliomyelitis in Encyclopedia |
| | The first medical report on poliomyelitis was by Jakob Heine in 1840. | | | Karl Oskar Medin was the first to empirically study a poliomyelitis epidemic in 1890. | | | The work of these two physicians has led to the disease being known as the Heine-Medin disease. |
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| | Fighting Disease: Disease List--POLIOMYELITIS |
| | A wide range of manifestations, including nonspecific minor illness, aseptic meningitis (nonparalytic poliomyelitis), and flaccid weakness of various muscle groups (paralytic poliomyelitis). | | | Poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that attacks the central nervous system, causing permanent paralysis of the muscles and frequently death. | | | The incidence of the disease has been on the decline and it is targeted for eradication by the year 2000. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 19, Ch. 265, Childhood Infections |
| | Clinical forms vary, but the basic patterns are minor illness (abortive) and major illness (paralytic or nonparalytic). | | | OPV is contraindicated in immunodeficient patients, who should receive IPV, and in families with an immunodeficient member because of the possibility of contact infection from vaccinees who excrete the virus. | | | Although, rarely, certain group A and B coxsackieviruses (especially A7), several echoviruses, and enterovirus type 71 may produce muscle weakness or paralysis that cannot be clinically differentiated from paralytic poliomyelitis. |
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| | poliomyelitis -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | This may later cause severe pain with further fever, occasional delirium and meningism (due to accompanying encephalitis), and a rapid onset of muscle atrophy, fasciculations, and weakness that may be... | | | The development of polio vaccines in the 1950s has almost eliminated the disease in developed countries. | | | Severe epidemics of poliomyelitis have been reported in many parts of the world. |
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| | Disease Information: Poliomyelitis - Travel Medicine Program - Public Health Agency of Canada |
| | Polio infection often produces no symptoms or minor symptoms, such as fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, constipation (or less commonly diarrhoea), stiff neck and pain in the limbs. | | | Poliomyelitis, or polio, is an acute infectious disease caused by one of three gastrointestinal viruses, either poliovirus type 1, 2 or 3. | | | Infectious diseases not necessarily common in Canada can occur and may even be widespread in other countries. |
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| | WHO Poliomyelitis |
| | A rare related condition, nonpoliovirus poliomyelitis, may result from infections with nonpoliovirus enteroviruses. | | | The virus replicates in the nervous system, and may cause significant neuronal loss, most notably in the spinal cord. |
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| | Polio |
| | The non-neural aspects of poliomyelitis, so critical to the pathogenesis of the disease, are reflected not only in the lymph nodes but also in the spleen, liver, kidneys and other viscera. | | | Some 6-20 days after exposure, nonspecific symptoms occur in most clinically apparent cases. | | | Two to 6 days after onset, the illness may subside entirely (abortive poliomyelitis), abate temporarily or progress directly to CNS involvement. |
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| | CDC - Yellow Book: [4] Poliomyelitis - CDC Travelers' Health |
| | Poliomyelitis is an acute viral infection that involves the gastrointestinal tract and occasionally the central nervous system. | | | Travelers to countries where poliomyelitis cases still occur should be fully immunized. | | | Adults who are traveling to areas where poliomyelitis cases are occurring and who have received a primary series with either IPV or OPV should receive another dose of IPV before departure. |
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| | FindArticles search for "Poliomyelitis" |
| | According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a single case of paralytic poliomyelitis, with onset of paralysis on Dec. 17, 2003, has been reported... | | | According to the World Health Organization, three poliomyelitis cases have occurred in the African countries of Mali and Guinea, both of which are believed... | | | After the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) resolved in 1988 to eradicate poliomyelitis globally, the number of countries... |
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| | Communicable Disease Fact Sheet |
| | Polio is a viral disease which may affect the central nervous system. | | | You are Here: Home Page > Communicable Disease > Poliomyelitis |
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| | Worldworx Travel - Health - Diseases - Poliomyelitis |
| | Worldworx Travel - Health - Diseases - Poliomyelitis | | | Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without written permission of Worldworx is prohibited. |
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| | Polio eradication, conquering poliomyelitis: virus & vaccine against poliomyelitis, physical therapy |
| | Polio eradication, conquering poliomyelitis: virus and vaccine against poliomyelitis, physical therapy | | | In the last 15 years, the number of cases of polio worldwide has dropped spectacularly, going from 350,000 cases in 1988 when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative began to just a few hundred today. | | | It was written by Dire la Science (excerpts taken from the book Histoire de l'éradication de la poliomyélite, les maladies meurent aussi, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, January 2004). |
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| | WHO/WPRO-WPR_RC42_R03 Eradication of Poliomyelitis in the Region |
| | Appreciating the efforts of the countries in which poliomyelitis cases still occur to strengthen their poliomyelitis eradication activities; | | | Recognizing, however, that the number of poliomyelitis cases in the Region actually increased in each of the last two years, and that more intensive surveillance and immunization activities are needed to eradicate poliomyelitis, both in the countries currently reporting cases and in those which are not; | | | (2) to complete their poliomyelitis surveillance systems and increase their reliability to ensure that all poliomyelitis cases are promptly reported and investigated, and reports on status are regularly submitted to the WHO Regional Office; |
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| | Polio |
| | Polio (also called poliomyelitis) is a contagious, historically devastating disease that was virtually eliminated from the Western hemisphere in the second half of the 20th century. | | | Although polio has plagued humans since ancient times, its most extensive outbreak occurred in the first half of the 1900s before the |
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| | Poliomyelitis: A Brief History |
| | As evidence of the early existence of poliomyelitis, Paul (1971) and other writers offer an Egyptian stele (stone carving) dating between 1580 and 1350 B.C. that shows a young man with an atrophied leg, which looks like a limb deformity that might have been caused by polio. |
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| | Poliomyelitis: A guide for Developing Countries |
| | In addition details about the management of other orthopaedic conditions, as well as late untreated trauma common to developing countries will be included. | | | Initially an introduction and operative procedures to correct lower limb contractures suitable for developing countries will be described plus details of manufacture of cheap, easily produced calipers, wheelchairs and other appliances made from locally available materials. | | | Extracts from the French 2nd edition of Poliomyelitis, as well as further extracts from the English edition, will shortly be provided on this website. |
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| | HHRS Resources: Poliomyelitis History |
| | Conference Papers: "The Canadian Connection: Poliomyelitis Research, Connaught Laboratories and the Salk Vaccine, 1947-1955," Annual Meetings: Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Ottawa, June 1993; American Association for the History of Medicine, Louisville, KY, May 1993 | | | Conference Paper: "Poliomyelitis, Physicians and the Popular Press in Early 20th-Century Ontario," Annual Meeting, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Kingston, May 1991 | | | Conference Paper: "'The March Across the Border:' The Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis and the Politics of the March of Dimes, 1945-1951," paper presented, Annual Meeting American Association for the History of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1995 |
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| | Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Franklin continued to see various women, possibly including his secretary Missy LeHand, which is speculative. | | | In August 1921, while the Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Roosevelt was stricken with poliomyelitis, a viral infection of the nerve fibers of the spinal cord, probably contracted while swimming in the stagnant water of a nearby lake. |
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| | Panapress Official Website |
| | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Cote d'Ivoire is not participating in the second synchronised national immunisation days against poliomyelitis in West and Central Africa from 18-21 November due to the country's deteriorating social economic situation. | | | Ivorian conflict, funding shortfall dog Africa's anti-polio drive | | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) begins a two-day preparatory meeting beginning Thursday in Abidjan for a massive vaccination campaign against poliomyelitis and measles scheduled before the end of the year in 15 West African countries. |
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| | NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE |
| | For example, Alzheimer's disease hits the hippocampus and cholinergic nucleus of Maynert harder than the rest of the brain. | | | Even short hypoxia or hypoglycemia will damage Sommer's sector (CA1) of the hippocampus (and other areas of the cortex), the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum, and the basal ganglia. | | | Mercury selectively damages the cerebellar granular neurons, methanol poisons the retina, and poliomyelitis destroys only the anterior horn cells. |
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