Category: Polio

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. It was also known to be a great health issue in the United States around the…

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 for the overall health of society. The claim…

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 immunity is the stop of the spread of…

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, commonly known as polio, is an incurable and highly…

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 never been eliminated in some countries, but even worse…

‘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 the author of three books with a non-fiction genre, and one of these books is…