Category: Polio

Poliovirus As a Highly Infectious Virus That Causes Polio: Analysis of Causes, Incidences and Risk Factors Thesis: The poliovirus is a highly infectious virus that causes polio, which has debilitating signs and symptoms on the body and undiscovered treatments. Introduction The Poliovirus has been carbon dated back at least 6000 years ago in Egyptian mummies.…

Biology Research Assessment: Importance of Vaccines against Polio Claim Vaccines are not required for the overall health of society. Rationale Groups such as The Australian Vaccine Network (AVN) have raised concerns over the administration of vaccines in Australia due to their perceived negative public health consequences. This led to the claim: Vaccines are not required…

Analytical Essay on Vaccination against Polio in Australia The claim It is increasingly important that Australia maintains strong quarantined measures to protect its environment was made. The claim is saying that if Australia doesnt keep ontop of the diseases, bugs or plants coming into the country then will the countrys herd immunity be affected. Herd…

Polio Resurgence: A Call to Regain Trust to Vaccines While polio has become a distant memory in most parts of the world, the disease has managed to resurge in countries where it was once eliminated like, Syria, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Myanmar and Philippines, where the latest case of polio outbreak has been recorded. Poliomyelitis,…

Poliomyelitis as a Crippling and Potentially Lethal Communicable Disease Polio continues to be a global public health issue, and even though it has been eliminated from most of the republics of the world, some countries, threatens the dream of total elimination of polio from the surface of the world. The spreading of polio virus has…

Review of Seth Mnookin’s ‘The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear’ ‘The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear’ by Seth Mnookin, published in January 2011. Seth Mnookin is an American writer, journalist, and media reporter for Undark Magazine’s podcast and contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Mnookin is…