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Before the vaccines were first administered, the Polio virus was one of the most feared and deadly diseases that existed at the time as there weren’t a capable amount of iron lungs available for how many patients had to be cared for. This feat made many people left untreated due to too much demand as only the people in states of paralysis were the ones able to receive proper treatment, leaving the rest with minor or major sickness untreated. Nowadays, Polio in America is nonexistent as in the early 1970’s there were only 10, and now were reached having no cases since 1979!

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Nowadays, there are 2 types of vaccines you can use to get vaccination against polio, but this is dependent on where you live. They both are equally effective and provide immunity and blocking transmission. The first vaccine prototype was consisting of a weakened version of Polio and was given to an 8 year old boy on February 27, 1950, created by Hilary Koprowski. The vaccine was proven effective and was on trial in the Belgian Congo and given to 7 million children. The second prototype vaccine, created in 1952 by Jonas Salk provided immunity to all 3 types of Polio, therefore proving itself more effective. It was given in shots of 3 doses. The oral vaccine, not being invented until 1957, was a process of a sub-physiologically temperatured dose of medication down the throat and moves down into the gut. The type of Polio cell put into the vaccine replicated very easily, which bodies being able to fight it off made them immediately immune the the 3 types of polio. This vaccine was low cost and easier to administer to more people, therefore it being the best option. There have been very rare times where the oral vaccine has reverted and made people go into a state of paralysis, but this isn’t a common thing to experience.

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There is no true cure for Polio, but there are multiple ways to help treat it. Some antibiotics that can be used are muscle relievers and antibiotics that prevent diseases in weakened muscles, along with eating nutritiously and moderate exercise. In paralytic cases, some will need long term physical rehabilitation and occupational therapy, or orthopedic surgery in extremity. You will need a ventilator if the disease has contacted the bulbar area of your brain, but the need for this is rare. These are called iron lungs and held people inside and provided ventilation until the disease passed. Since these were historical, many survivors that aren’t fully capable of breathing on their own use jacket like ventilation connected to the abdomen. Other historically used treatment was hydro and electrotherapy, tendon lengthening and nerve grafting.

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Once contacted, you will expect one of the 3 stages of Polio, being the most minor, which is contracting a small fever and barely showing any other symptom as the disease hasn’t infected the nervous system, or having a major illness and paralysis since the disease has reached the nervous system. Polio is very asymptomatic for most people with a normal nervous system. It’s rare that there will be only minor symptoms, as most are influenza-like, such as respiratory tract infection, or abdominal infection. Only 1 percent of cases will experience paralysis however, but they will also develop aseptic meningitis along the way. In cases of infants, there is a chance of the disease getting to the brain tissue.

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Polio, which is also called Poliomyelitis, is a disease caused by the virus Poliovirus. The disease can be very deadly, and in rare cases can cause long term paralysis that occurs over a few hours to a few days from the disease moving from your gut over to your nervous system. Paralysis is mostly in the legs, but sometimes will be in the muscles and arms as well. Many people fully recover and don’t show a lot of symptoms, but some have reported minor systems like a fever. After a person recovers, they may develop post-Polio disease, which involves a slow process of muscle weakening. The disease has existed for thousands of years, proven by ancient art depicting it. The disease didn’t have its outbreak until the 19th century, and in the 20th century it was one of the easiest disease for vulnerable children to contract.