Conquering the polio epidemic
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- Near the start of the 20th century, a mysterious and deadly virus terrified Americans, particularly infecting young kids: Polio. Correspondent Rita Braver looks at the scientific arsenal brought to combat the epidemic and develop a vaccine, and talks with documentary filmmaker Carl Kurlander ("The Shot Felt 'Round the World"); Dr. Paul Duprex, who is trying to replicate Dr. Jonas Salk’s success in his research for a vaccine for COVID-19; and Joanne Yager, who survived polio as a teenager and now, at 83, runs a support group for polio survivors in Arizona called Polio Epic Tucson.
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My Dad has polio in 1924. He was left walking with brace and cane. As soon as the vaccine was ready we were in line at school to get it. I remember it some 50 years later. It was a big deal for us as a family.
Thats great
how old is your father if you don't me asking
@@RB-ge2rc Well, by doing the math, that would make him around 97 years old. If he's still alive, that is.
@@rebeccagutierrez1960 it would be even more than that as you don't get polio when your first born
That make u like 100 and I doubt a hundred yea told should have yt
polio sounds soo much scarier than COVID-19 or Coronavirus
It is more deadly. Once you catch it you can’t loose it. Like in a week you become paralyzed and you have to be in a iron lungs to breath. And as you know when you go to the doctor they give you a shot which is the polio vaccine so if there is any polio in the world you won’t catch it.
you just scared me 😭😭😭😭😭
That's mainly because back then people didn't have nearly as advanced medical care or knowledge.
Progress...but there are so many idiots in the population that would drag us back to the dark ages... ..anti vaxxers need to have lived through the polio years and seen their little children suffer so much...that might educate them
Covid is also dangerous
But polio is way more tarifying
I have been saying since this Covid 19 Pandemic started that it reminds me of Polio. When I was a teenager I saw an iron lung in a German hospital, I am in my 50ies now and I still have nightmares about this contraption knowing that it saved thousands and thousands of lives. Thank you Jonas Salk, I am hoping that the world will see another Jonas Salk moment for Covid 19
@Dylan Hennessey they are both devastating. But lets not forget that when Polio was claiming lives, it was a very different time / era. People did not travel the world as readily then as they do now, the disease did not spread quite like Covid 19 has. I had my 2 Covid vaccines, I am one of the lucky ones. Once again, the world has been taught how precious life and freedom is. I fear if we keep abusing our world, similar diseases will continue to flood us. And sadly this is just the beginning... and if the iron lungs were still in use, they would definitely be used for Covid patients. They are developing the "modern iron lungs", called Exovents. And they are not a pretty sight neither. We need to try and eradicate this virus like we managed with the Polio virus, or the only way from now on will be a lonely way
@@dentheocean No you don't need iron lung for covid.
Different cases, polio cause paralysis and covid not
@@carval51 unfortunately I have to disagree, negative pressure has been and is used in Covid patients, please look up " Extrovent, its like an iron lung cut in half. IF they still had the iron lungs, I am convinced they would have put in use for severe covid patients.
Covid 19 is a bio weapon to wipe out the elderly and the sick as the world is getting over populated that’s why we are having gas increases and food inflation. Gas is in abundance it’s underneath is they just choose to tell us that it’s running out and that’s why the prices are going up it’s just lies ! Also there destroying farmers land and getting rid of loads of cattle why would they do that if we had food shortages ?
and to think, he was an American Jewish man. Germans nowadays don't like Americans and persecuted jewish people in the past.
My dad got polio when he was six and now battling post polio syndrome. The vaccine was new and my grandparents didn't want to vaccine my dad and his brothers. After my dad got polio, his parents then decided to vaccinate his other 3 brothers.
Why do u refer ur grand parents as his parents?
@@ykenanvideos2482 Because they are?
I was only 8 months old, when i contacted polio.
But i only got it on my right leg.
but mother made sure that i would be just as normal as everyone else.
I am now 70 yrs old and in a wheelchair, but i did get married for times, and had
4 children, all are grown up. 2 girls & 2 boys
and I lost one with a misscarge.
Love all of them even the one i misscarage.
Bless you
you were married 4 times or married for times?
@@SuperTruthful 4 times
@@michellemarko733 Good for you. Happy for your
@@SuperTruthful I'm not talking about myself, I was answering your quest about the other person.
Thank you Dr. Salk and all the pioneers, the world will be indebted to you always.
Do you mean “Thank you”?
Tell that to antivax
Without Dr. Salk, there would not be a Dr. Fauci.
agreed
My mother-in-law survived polio in the early 40s(she was a teen) she was bedridden for months and suffered some muscle athropy in her wrists/arms but otherwise was lucky to recover relatively well compared to many others. She was very keen her children all got vaccinated.
My grandfather had polio and then post polio syndrome.
If we had Facebook in the 1950s we would still have polio in the USA
You ever noticed how no one has had the flue this year......
@@cheapskateaquatics7103 you are selectively looking up what you believe, it’s confirmation bias
@@cheapskateaquatics7103 …because people are wearing masks. can’t get sick if you’re protecting yourself
@@cheapskateaquatics7103 Nonsense. Between October 1, 2019 and April 4, 2020, the flu resulted in: 39 to 56 million illnesses 410,000 to 740,000 hospitalizations 24,000 to 62,000 deaths 195 pediatric deaths.
@@yunnrie masks don’t protect the user. They only prevent the user spreading any potential viruses.
History will usually tell you what happens next
History has a way of dodging itself. History is very arrogant. We should arrest history and feed it a strong bitter syrup to get it to do a better job. History is very lazy. Never replies to my letters...
This doesn't end well, lol v
But this is a very good short documentary. It is great that Salk and Sabin refused to take money or profits from the vacinne: Here is Sabin's approach: "Sabin refused to patent his vaccine, waiving every commercial
exploitation by pharmaceutical industries, so that the low price would guarantee a more extensive spread of the treatment..."
I remember how terrified my mother was of polio back in the early 50s. When the school I went to was chosen for vaccine trials in 1954, I remember bringing the permission slip to participate home to her and demanding that she sign it so I could fight polio. I was a 7-year-old second grader at the time. I still have my card and my pin proclaiming that I am a polio pioneer for taking part. If I never do anything else in my life, at least I was one of the many who helped conquer this disease.
History is a big circle. 💔
Wow I’m reading the stories in the comments and it just makes me think about how I’ll look back at the past. I’m 22 and I can imagine being older telling my grandkids about the covid pandemic! Thanks for sharing your stories!
covid is a joke
Covid is nothing compared to polio covid was like a cold if you were in decent shape
History just repeats for people who forget. What about those who didn't even get close to understand history? They go out to street and trust people next to them, equally ignorant.
Yeah.. people like YOU
Yeah they can literally trust idiots that can favor their own views on how they think a vaccine is somehow evil but can't trust the intelligent person who put his soul into doing research finding a vaccine to help people not go through any more suffering. If it wasn't for the covid vaccine we would have had a longer pandemic. Improvement of science and technology will slowly save lives much quicker down the line
I had polio in 1959 . Not sure what month i got sick. I was 3 when I got sick and was in Childrens hospital Los Angeles for 3 1/2 months. It freaked everyone out because the vaccine was already available. That is when they figured out somehow I got it from vaccine . I have no lasting problems. It was kind of mild because it was from the vaccine. I remember all of it . I remember how my leg hurt . I can remember the pain. My leg was drawn up to my chin . I was in traction for the 3 1/2 months.
That sounds painful! Thank you for sharing. It is very wonderful to see so many people who survived in the comments!
That is a blessing how you dont have any lasting problems.
During the outbreak, Michigan's Upper Peninsula was said to have one of the most sever rates of polio, having 320 confirmed cases. At one point, 13 people required an Iron Lung to survive, but only 1 commercial respirator was available in the UP. A few Yoopers got together to build more - using a wooden cabinet, a vacuum cleaner, and a record player (to make it automatic). State Troopers and other community members drove hours around the UP to pick up kids and bring them to St. Lukes Hospital in Marquette where the best help, and respirators, were.
Thank you for this program and history.
I grew up as kid in 1960s. Out in public, periodically I would see A person hobbling around on crutches and wearing metal leg braces. My mom’s friend had polio.
I love this TV show. One day I'll have more time to actually watch it.
Hn heavily left leaning this woman is crazy
My dad had polio when he was a young boy. He eventually recovered from it, thanks in part to Sister Kenny.
Love and comfort and joy
Right now we’re learning about polio in my school I know how much it affected people in the time period that it was in I’m so sorry for all those families that went through that I know how much polio can hurt and the time period that it was him they did not have the medicine or the doctors or the equipment like we do today to fight polio like we do with coronavirus
I remember the lonely years, the emphasis on sanitation and quarantines. No swimming pools, rollar rinks shut down and finally the Salk vaccine by injection.
and then he GAVE it to the world...an altruistic moment that is lacking today...
Oh, god. David, you said it. Greedy AF, lazy. Stupid. Selfish.
I got Polio at the age of 2 years old and now I have pps, I'm 76 years old, I'm very blessed,I have good days,and I have bad days.
Thanks for sharing!please tray to be the best in the world to help all people with poliomyelitis!👏🥰🍀
I wish you would educate people about Sister Kenny.
Yes !! Sister Kenny was a wonderful person!!
I love that you used a picture of people with polio from the vaccine 😂
My grandma’s cousin had polio. She was in an iron lung for a few weeks. My grandma remembers writing her cards while she was sick. She is doing better now but her legs are still weak sometimes.
I contracted Polio in 1955. I was one of the last 2 cases in Queens NYC. I was 4 years old. The Polio vaccine appeared a few months later.
Thanks for sharing. Wow. What symptoms do you have to this day? Like, what do you have to deal with from having polio?
@@eddies8856 I was paralyzed for a few weeks. I was lucky as I healed totally.
@@robinmorano7071 Wow!! I bet you are forever grateful. Thats awesome how you healed up perfectly
Different era we live in
We need more doctors like Salk
She definitely have a story to tell
Wild people need to know this
My mother is one of few that is still living that had caught police in 1957
Fortunately, the COVID-19 vaccine took months, vs. the years that the polio treatments took. Salk and Sabin, I just found out, hated each other and took pleasure when the other had setbacks.
it's not over yet.
@@Gaming_Fungus Neither COVID-19 nor polio are over yet.
@@hebneh Only because people are paranoid about a polio shot millions if not billions of people had. Which everyone has to go to school. 0 polio, then, right?
good thing covid is bull
the majority of the children that the vaccines were tested on were disabled children who could not consent/volunteer - this should also be mentioned during discussion of creating a polio vaccine
What? This is a moot point now, isn't it? As is the Cutter affair.
vaccine trials can't even work that way, literally they have to inject it in healthy patients and see how many of them get it compared to a placebo
please get your facts straight karen, you sound like a child
it's back.
She’s so lucky!!! I think talking to the last man alive in an iron lung ( Paul ) would of had a deeper impact …..
Anybody old enough to remember when they were gassing everybody with DDT to "combat polio?" I hope you're paying attention this time
I was a baby at the time so I do not remember the big scare.
I remember getting the sugar cube at school.
I now can understand the fear with the virus now.
Thank God people got the shots unlike now.
I got vaccinated at 5-6 years old. My first cousin, Jimmy Tom, same age, did not and caught it that year. He lived to be 40, handicapped and used braces on his legs. It finally killed him. He was my best pal in the Sacramento area.
00:36 we’re can I find this broadcast by Walter?
What I find weird people inside the metal lungs that there belly’s are really big..
Polio patients in Iron lungs had paralysis of muscles used to control the diaphragm in the abdominal area that controls breathing
It seems there is a polio outbreak now in Malawi 💔
i hope things are better now ❤
Jonas Salk is the biggest chad in history.
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Also Goodwill of Orange County - Community Based Services is closed down due to the COVID-19 virus from March 18th, 2020 until further notice.
What if you got polio and coronavirus at the same time
😬😱
If you had sane parents you got a vaccine against polio
There is no active polio anymore, unless you live in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. Highly unlikely you'd get polio in a developed country. Of course Entitled anti vaxxers are pushing the limits with immunity. Nowdays, Whooping cough, measles, mumps and Chicken Pox are all held in check with vaccines .
@@Og-Judy thanks!
BRUHH IN THE PHILIPPINES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TOLD US POLIO CANE BACK GLADLY IM 11
Here we are in summer of 2022 & polio is making a comeback. Let the battle of coronavirus, monkey pox and polio begin.. 🥴
Right
if I was there, I would've just stayed home
How do we get this on FOX so Trump will watch it?
covid doesnt compare idiot
@@supersupercool2480 Ah, another Trump rocket scientist. Approaching 3 million dead and still rising. All because of Trump's lies, mismanagement and criminal activities. A quarter of the world's covid deaths in the richest country in the world, the USA. You're right though, it doesn't compare in numbers because people at that time did the right things, so the numbers were low. That's the entire point. You might want to take a look in the mirror, Nobody that supports Trump has the right to call anyone else an idiot.
@UCwwIG0kLbf0k1JNpaWjdFkA talk about Trump supporters dumb and idiots look at libetard protesters they all have blue green red hairs and all over weight and with tattoos piercing those are the real idiots. Trump supporters are ten times beautiful and looks smarter than those liberats. Sit down dumbazz if you are libetard you shouldn't voice your opinion CNN or medias will do that for they dumbazz followers.
@@johnback0007 You speak/write English like that and you're calling me the dumbazz (nice spelling by the way)? Thanks for the laugh, lobotomy poster child.
@@ThoughtFission shut up canadian
Why are they talking so slowly?
He sounds like he from Northern Ireland
why dont no one talks about it alot or teachers or mom or dad about polio.
To have memory of it you need to be about 65. I'm 77, I remember it. I don't recall anyone I knew getting it but I lived in a smail town with a population of about 2000. My wife, also 77, lived nearby and knew a kid who had an iron lung machine in his living room and all the neighbors came by to see him. He eventually recovered and live a normal life. Not every one had the same experience with polio, like many diseases.
Poliovirus
is a lot scarier than the coronavirus
0:16 I feel little kids pain
My great aunt had polio and I had AFM which is modern polio when I was 4 in 2014
They didn't profit, but served their nation and the rest of the world. My mother was extremely proud to be the same profession as Sabin and Salk. She was an RN for 40+ yrs and served as a nurse in WWII. She loved her country. yet she thought healthcare should be universal and not be driven by greedy profiteers. Please get vaccinated and help your family, community, nation.
I ask folks around my age regarding the covid shot if they remember something similar from when we were kids. Very few make the polio-covid similarities.
I'm 75 and my family members and I thought of the polio scare right away.
So happy I had the tdp shot, still walking easily. However we need to tell people that even tho developed countries are more healthy, it can confuse. Illnesses can still exist
Do i see the philippine sun
13 Things You Didn't Know About Polio
1. In the 1800's a popular wallpaper called Paris Green was infused with a potent pesticide. Some of the most toxic substances known to man: copper and arsenic or lead and arsenic.
2. This pesticide worked by causing neurological damage in the bugs, causing organ failure.
3. Polio consists of symptoms synonymous with neurological damage, causing organ failure.
4. Heavy metal poisoning from lead, mercury and other similar heavy metals manifest lesions on neurological tissues, meaning the toxin destroys the nerve/communication pathways connecting the brain to the organs in the body.
5. Polio victims present lesions on neurological tissue, that cause the organs to malfunction all around the body. (lungs, heart, nerves that control walking etc)
6. Polio outbreaks hit throughout the summer, only during pesticide spraying times. (not the sunless and damp winter/spring seasons like other disease outbreaks)
7. Polio had NO ability to spread from infected victims to the uninfected. Polio infected clusters of people in the exact same areas, suddenly and swiftly.
8. Parents report finding their children paralyzed in and around apple orchards. One of the most heavily pesticide sprayed crops of the time (with lead arsenate or copper arsenate) were apple orchards.
9. President Roosevelt became paralyzed over night while on his farm in the summer, which contained many crops, including apple orchards. He also swam the day prior in a bay that was heavily polluted by industrial agricultural run off.
10. Dr. Ralph Scobey and Dr. Mortind Biskind testified in front of the U.S Congress in 1951 that the paralysis around the country known as polio was being caused by industrial poisons and that a virus theory was purposely fabricated by the chemical industry and the government to deflect litigation away from both parties.
11. In 1956 the AMA (The American Medical Association) instructed each licensed medical doctor that they could no longer classify polio as polio, or their license to practice would be terminated. Any paralysis was now to be diagnosed as AFP (acute flaccid paralysis) MS, MD, Bell's Palsy, cerebral palsy, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Guillian-Barre etc etc. This was orchestrated purposely to make the public believe polio was eradicated by the polio vaccine campaign, but because the polio vaccine contained toxic ingredients directly linked to paralysis, polio cases (not identified as polio) were skyrocketing...but only in vaccinated areas.
12. The first polio vaccine was worked on by Dr. Jonas Salk and human experiments using this vaccine were conducted purposely on orphans in government/church run institutions because they were vulnerable and didn't require any parental consent signatures, as they had no parents. The vaccine was "declared safe" by "medicine" (as they always are) and that vaccine gave 40,000 orphans polio, permanently paralyzed hundreds and killed at least 10 children. All injuries and deaths under-reported of course by the same authorities who orchestrated the atrocity. This was called The Cutter Incident.
13. The next "improved" polio vaccine, given to hundreds of millions, carried both the SV 40 cancer virus as well as the AIDS virus. Every step of the way, medicine declaring they know for sure, that this time, they have everything straightened out. Same story then, same story now.
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Luckily to the people's that doesn't had polio.
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Lots of Americans didnt even know Roosevelt was paralyzed because he did his speeches over the radio
That Dr. Paul Du Pray guy looks weird with his mustache 😂
If social media exist in this time, i think the polio would still here
Juan jeager? Sasageyo sasageyo shinzo sasagayo
Not me remembering the head with an iron lung from JESSIE's future episode
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During the Video 🤓
After the video 👁👄👁
Were there polio deniers?
I bet they existed, because history ALWAYS shows there are deniers of almost every plague (there were in the black plague and the 1918 flu, I know for sure) but it's hard to imagine with something like this. How on earth could you possibly call polio a hoax?! But I bet anything there was someone who tried.
@ju ju I’m a caregiver for my grandmother who is a cripple from polio, they’re around. One of her legs is much smaller and underdeveloped than the other.
@ju ju tbh they probably died or are in long term living facilities.
@ju ju 254,000 were paralyzed in the US, so they’re here you’re just unlikely to come across them.
They didnt have internet there.
So my response is... "No."
Love Dr. Suzanne Humphries book " Dissolving Illusions" and her other book "rising from the Dead". Interesting video on this topic .My uncle died from polio before the shot came out but he passed as a result of a weakened immune system and it was is time ( it was in God's hands).
Why you dont talk about than polish Men Hilary Koprowski make the first antidotum in the polio.
It always goes to the nasty, infested big Apple.
Lol
Why is not necessary many polio vaccine jabs to keep immunity?
it was eradicated, so it can’t mutate. all because of mandatory vaccines!
@@gladlock good point
@@whitehat20 would be a good point if polio had mutated even once, very much indicating that its not a virus prone to mutation. corona and influenza viruses are different in this regard, hence the absolute mindboggling stupidity to try and vaccinate against these. everyone actually familiar with viral biology knows that the covid vaccine is, at best, a short term immune booster that is potentially harmful for people with an already weakened immune system due to age or prior conditions. in short: you re comparing apples to oranges
Because you only need the one...? Lol. Viruses aren't all the same. The ones you have a shot for, you generally DO NOT want to eff with.
@@whitehat20 grandma camel suzannes
Polio basicly means you cant move a limb 🦵💪 and just paralys like a noodle
Competition doesn't push advances. Intrinsic motivation pushes advances.
That's right. Hilleman and Salk never wanted to be famous. They wanted to stay in their labs and create vaccines that would save humanity.
Both ways, self motivation and competition, push advances
See electricity. Same story.
Kinda moronic to compare polio to the rona
Weak argument you have.
why? it was eradicated because of vaccines
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Jonas Salk was a true hero. He invented the cure for polio and saved so many lives. Thanks to Sabin as well. Both great jewish man who contributed to the survival of mankind.
LOL
Stop saying "like covid 19", covid 19 isn't even remotely in the same universe of how truly devastating polio was. Covid 19 is a bad cough, polio ruins your entire life
That isn't true for anyone either way. Some people are barely affected by either illness.
Skip.
Oof polio has reach the Philippines now good thing I'm 11 year old
Vaccinate.
Get the shot, then. Everyone in US of a certain age had it to go to school since 1955. Don't play with polio. It's nasty.
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Back then dimes cost alot of money?
l0l comparing covid to polio. what has politics become
Universities in the 1950’s: “let’s cure a deadly virus and help everyone!
Universities now: “the word ‘dude’ is gendered language and I’m literally triggered”
greatest generation: lets all collectively contribute to the overall effort by going through minor inconvenices
current generation: I HATE MASKS!!! I DON"T WANT NO VACCINES!! MAGA!!! I CANT GET MA HAIR DONE!!!THE EARTH IS FLAT!!
Lets just say people are hard at work with vaccines but people these days ( speicifically MAGA idiots), rather not wear masks or get a vaccine..
@@UNSTABLE111 cringe
@@centralctbench6843 didn't many universities helped to formulate covid vaccines? Your statements are stupid.
In the early 90s, I once had what used to be called a drag queen or a guy in drag correct me when I said something like "guys" referring to a group of women s/he was in. He/they might be a guy in a dress and I don't really care, got my own problems...but that was just stupid and rude. It's not going to change chromosomes.
THERE IS NO MATHEMATICS.
Wasnt FDR lucky to enjoy the lands of the indigenous peoples 😊 lucky lucky white man.
Ayo these gonna tach us a lesson never to eat a bat lol
Also I do take this seriously I just wanna make people feel better about this and that we can get through it and things happen and sometimes we can’t get rid of it but we can and I reap eat we can ALWAYS get through it
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Vaccination!
Vaccines Work
… And how many kids have died from Covid? You’re comparing apples to oranges
Shame on you CBS for this PROPAGANDA!
IGGYPUDLZ Why is this propaganda?
IGGYPUDLZ bot alert
And the earth is flat
@@lunarissommersonnenwende8273 do you need help?