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1.Polio - Our World in Data
Url:https://ourworldindata.org/polio
21 hours ago In the early 1980s, an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 people suffered from paralytic polio cases every year. In 2020 there were 1873 paralytic polio cases. In the 1980s the world saw many …
2.Polio - Wikipedia
Url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
31 hours ago Overall, 5 to 10 percent of patients with paralytic polio die due to the paralysis of muscles used for breathing. The case fatality rate (CFR) varies by age: 2 to 5 percent of children and up to 15 to …
3.Poliomyelitis - World Health Organization
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7 hours ago Among those paralysed, 5–10% die when their breathing muscles become immobilized. Cases due to wild poliovirus have decreased by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350 000 …
4.Global Health - Newsroom - Polio - Centers for Disease Control …
Url:https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/newsroom/topics/polio/index.html
5 hours ago Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person invading the brain and spinal cord which can lead to …
5.Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths - Our World in Data
Url:https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-paralytic-polio-cases-and-deaths-in-the-united-states-since-1910
4 hours ago Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States. The reported figures include both wild- and vaccine-derived type polio infections that occurred indigenously and as imported cases. …
6.What is Polio? - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Url:https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm
16 hours ago Paralysis is the most severe symptom associated with poliovirus because it can lead to permanent disability and death. Between 2 and 10 out of 100 people who have paralysis from …
7.No Lockdowns: The Terrifying Polio Pandemic of 1949-52 | AIER
Url:https://www.aier.org/article/no-lockdowns-the-terrifying-polio-pandemic-of-1949-52/
3 hours ago Polio was not an unknown disease: its reputation for cruelty was well earned. In the 1916 outbreak, there were 27,000 cases and more than 6,000 deaths due to polio in the United …
8.History of polio: Outbreaks and vaccine timeline - Mayo Clinic
Url:https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio
36 hours ago Before the polio vaccine, the disease had been a major cause of disability in children. About 16,000 cases of polio (paralytic poliomyelitis) occurred each year in the U.S. in the 20th century …
9.List of polio survivors - Wikipedia
Url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polio_survivors
2 hours ago He was diagnosed with polio at the age of three months and first learned to walk at the age of twelve. He died in 1996, but not of polio. Pete Dawkins: born 1938: Former Heisman Trophy …
10.The 5 deadliest disease epidemics in the United States
Url:https://www.foxnews.com/health/the-5-deadliest-disease-epidemics-in-the-united-states
7 hours ago Of 58,000 cases reported that year, 21,000 were left with mild to disabling paralysis, and more than 3,000 died from the disease. A year later, Dr. Jonas Salk announced that he had …