write an essay about POLIO
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Polio was a deadly disease that struck the United States hard with various epidemic breakouts throughout the country. There are many books written about the disease and how it was controlled. Polio is a well-researched topic in today’s medical world but in this book, Heather Green Wooten, takes it one step further. She placed the focus of the book in the south, a place where the disease struck almost last yet it claimed many lives. It specifies on the state of Texas. In addition to that, she combinedDuring the twentieth century Americans were afraid. They were afraid of the Russians, they were afraid of the economy, they were afraid of Hitler, and they were afraid of polio. A disease as indiscriminate as a nuclear bomb, it struck young and old, rich and poor, white and black. It caused fear and hysteria, confusion and anger, paralysis, and even death. By this time the United States had endured smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, and tuberculosis; but it had never experienced a wide-spread epidemic of a disease that seemed to specifically target children before the twentieth century. Although polio effects people of all ages, children are the most susceptible due to their weak immune systems. Many victims of polio were partially or completely paralyzed, and thousands died. The “summer plague” would run rampant in the United States for nearly four decades.
Before the 1890’s polio was fairly common but largely unknown. The disease was very common in early history due to a lack of sanitation but because many people contracted the disease they developed immunity to that strain at an early age. If the infected persons lived through the early infection they were then immune to that particular strain of polio. This meant that in excess of 90% of some populations were immune, while less than 0.5% were paralyzed due to polio. Evidence has been found of polio in the ancient world. Some scientists believe hieroglyph depictions of people.
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