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The Polio Pioneer

Author : Linda Elovitz Marshall
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0525646531
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis The Polio Pioneer by : Linda Elovitz Marshall

Download or read book The Polio Pioneer written by Linda Elovitz Marshall and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK • Learn about the importance of vaccines and the scientific process through the fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, whose pioneering discoveries changed the world forever. Dr. Jonas Salk is one of the most celebrated doctors and medical researchers of the 20th century. The child of immigrants who never learned to speak English, Jonas was struck by the devastation he saw when the soldiers returned from battle after WWII. Determined to help, he worked to become a doctor and eventually joined the team that created the influenza vaccine. But Jonas wanted to do more. As polio ravaged the United States--even the president was not immune!--Jonas decided to lead the fight against this terrible disease. In 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine, which nearly eliminated polio from this country. For the rest of his life, Dr. Salk continued to do groundbreaking medical research at the Salk Institute, leaving behind a legacy that continues to make the world a better place every day. This compelling picture book biography sheds light on Dr. Salk's groundbreaking journey and the importance of vaccination.

Jonas Salk

Author : Corinne J. Naden
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780761318040
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Jonas Salk written by Corinne J. Naden and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and work of Jonas Salk, the scientist who developed the vaccine that conquered polio.

Polio Pioneer

Author : Linda Elovitz Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Polio Pioneer written by Linda Elovitz Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine.

Polio

Author : Thomas Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787380874
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Polio written by Thomas Abraham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.

Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues

Author : Norman F. Cheville
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 161249756X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues by : Norman F. Cheville

Download or read book Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues written by Norman F. Cheville and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues—anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio—were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow fever, German anthrax attacks on the United States during World War I, the tuberculin war of 1931, Japanese biological warfare in the 1940s, and today’s bioterror dangers. Veterinary science in the rural Midwest arose from agriculture, but in urban Philadelphia it came from medicine; similar differences occurred in Canada between Toronto and Montreal. As land-grant colleges were established after the American Civil War, individual states followed divergent pathways in supporting veterinary science. Some employed a trade school curriculum that taught agriculturalists to empirically treat animal diseases and others emphasized a curriculum tied to science. This pattern continued for a century, but today some institutions have moved back to the trade school philosophy. Avoiding lessons of the 1910 Flexner Report on medical education reform, university-associated veterinary schools are being approved that do not have control of their own veterinary hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and research institutes—components that are critical for training students in science. Underlying this change were twin idiosyncrasies of culture—disbelief in science and distrust of government—that spawned scientology, creationism, anti-vaccination movements, and other anti-science scams. As new infectious plagues continue to arise, Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues details the strategies we learned defeating plagues from 1860 to 1960—and the essential role veterinary science played. To defeat the plagues of today it is essential we avoid the digital cocoon of disbelief in science and cultural stasis now threatening progress.

Jonas Salk

Author : Charlotte Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199334412
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Jonas Salk written by Charlotte Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.

Splendid Solution

Author : Jeffrey Kluger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440684650
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Splendid Solution written by Jeffrey Kluger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling true story of Dr. Jonas Salk's quest to develop a vaccine for polio. In 1916, the United States was hit with one of the worst polio epidemics in history. The disease was a terrifying enigma: striking out of nowhere, it afflicted tens of thousands of children and left them—literally overnight—paralyzed. Others it simply killed. At the same time, a child named Jonas Salk was born.... When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio shortly before assuming the Presidency, Salk was given an impetus to study this deadly illness. After assisting in the creation of an influenza vaccine, Salk took up the challenge. His progress in combating the virus was hindered by the politics of medicine and by a rival researcher determined to discredit his proposed solution. But Salk's perseverance made history—and for close to seventy years his vaccine has saved countless lives, bringing humanity close to eradicating polio throughout the world. Splendid Solution chronicles Dr. Salk's race against time to achieve an unparalleled breakthrough that made him a cultural hero and icon of modern medicine.

Polio Across the Iron Curtain

Author : Dóra Vargha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420842
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Polio Across the Iron Curtain written by Dóra Vargha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics. This title is also available as Open Access.

The Vaccine Race

Author : Meredith Wadman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143111310
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Vaccine Race written by Meredith Wadman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times “Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—Nature The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Sweden, produced safe, clean cells that allowed the creation of vaccines against rubella and other common childhood diseases. Two years later, in the midst of a devastating German measles epidemic, his colleague developed the vaccine that would one day wipe out homegrown rubella. The rubella vaccine and others made with those fetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States, the vast majority of them preschoolers. The new cells and the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio, rabies, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis A, shingles and adenovirus. Meredith Wadman’s masterful account recovers not only the science of this urgent race, but also the political roadblocks that nearly stopped the scientists. She describes the terrible dilemmas of pregnant women exposed to German measles and recounts testing on infants, prisoners, orphans, and the intellectually disabled, which was common in the era. These events take place at the dawn of the battle over using human fetal tissue in research, during the arrival of big commerce in campus labs, and as huge changes take place in the laws and practices governing who “owns” research cells and the profits made from biological inventions. It is also the story of yet one more unrecognized woman whose cells have been used to save countless lives. With another frightening virus--measles--on the rise today, no medical story could have more human drama, impact, or urgency than The Vaccine Race.

Polio

Author : Tamra B. Orr
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435894367
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Polio written by Tamra B. Orr and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the poliovirus, its effects on the body, vaccines and the researchers who discovered them, and the threat that this virus still poses.

Jonas Salk

Author : Peggy J. Parks
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781567114751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Jonas Salk written by Peggy J. Parks and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the twentieth century.

Polio Pioneers

Author : Dorothy Sterling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Polio Pioneers written by Dorothy Sterling and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

Author : Katherine Krohn
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736896450
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (964 download)

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Book Synopsis Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine by : Katherine Krohn

Download or read book Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine written by Katherine Krohn and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In graphic novel format, tells the story of Jonas Salk's involvement in the development of a polio vaccine.

Polio Pioneer 1954

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Polio Pioneer 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed souvenir card, with original pinback button, recording the named individual as being enrolled as a Polio Pioneer. Certificate of membership was presented for taking part in the first national tests of a trial polio vaccine conducted during 1954.

Jonas Salk: Medical Innovator and Polio Vaccine Developer

Author : Sheila Llanas
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1617838969
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Jonas Salk: Medical Innovator and Polio Vaccine Developer written by Sheila Llanas and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography examines the remarkable life of Jonas Salk using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking black-and-white images and rich color photographs, readers will learn about Salk?s family background, childhood, education, groundbreaking research, and creation of the polio vaccine. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Thank You, Dr. Salk!

Author : Dean Robbins
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374390088
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Thank You, Dr. Salk! written by Dean Robbins and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jonas Salk finds the cure for polio in this inspiring, educational, and timely nonfiction picture book. Jonas Salk wasn't seen as a brave hero—not at first. As a child he was quiet and unassuming, but Jonas dreamed of tikkun olam, the Jewish phrase for “healing the world.” He saw the polio virus strike his city, and he knew that with determination and hard work, he could be the one to stop its spread. So he grew up to study medicine, ultimately creating the polio vaccine that saved untold numbers of lives—and healed the world! With Dean Robbins’s inspiring text and Mike Dutton’s dynamic illustrations, Thank You, Dr. Salk! is a true and timely story of trials, triumph, and what it takes to achieve your dreams. An author’s note provides additional insight into Dr. Salk’s life and influences, and the history of vaccines.

The Cutter Incident

Author : Paul A. Offit
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300126051
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Cutter Incident written by Paul A. Offit and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, thathas led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical company executives, attorneys, Cutter employees, and victims of the vaccine, as well as on previously unavailable archives, Dr. Paul Offit offers a full account of the Cutter disaster. He describes the nation's relief when the polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, the production of the vaccine at industrial facilities such as the one operated by Cutter, and the tragedy that occurred when 200,000 people were inadvertently injected with live virulent polio virus: 70,000 became ill, 200 were permanently paralyzed, and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how, as a consequence of the tragedy, one jury's verdict set in motion events that eventually suppressed the production of vaccines already licensed and deterred the development of new vaccines that hold the promise of preventing other fatal diseases.