Pulse Polio Pulse Polio is an immunization campaign established by the government of India in 1995-96 to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against polio virus. This project deals with the ways to fight poliomyelitis through a large scale immunization programme‚ co-operating with various international institutions‚ state governments and Non Governmental Organizations. In India‚ vaccination against Polio started in 1978 with Expanded
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Submitted to: Ma’am Chalee S. Reyes Ma’am Julie J. Tiu Submitted by: Jenn Lori Y. Gepaya BMLS-2E POLIOMYELITIS Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly contagious infectious viral disease‚ which mainly affects young children below five years old. It is an acute and communicable disease. Although approximately 90% of polio infections cause no symptoms at all‚ affected individuals can exhibit a range of symptoms if the virus enters the blood stream. In about 1% of cases‚ the
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NUR FATIN IZZATI BINTI RAHMAT AQ 100014 THEME: POLIO TITLE: DISASTER OF POLIO AND HOW TO COMBAT IT LECTURER: SALEHAH SHAHAR VIROLOGY ASSIGNMENT INTRODUCTION Over there look like a girl trying hard to drag her body on the floor and cause abrasion on her knee while an elderly sell old items from his wheelchair to raise some money for food and there is also a young man moves hardly‚ aided by obsolete surfboard. Just imagine about the agony and paralysis of the muscles that become flabby
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POLIO- Draft Done by: Fariha Ibnath Khan History Polio is also known as poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis. Polio is a viral disease that affects nerves and can lead to partial or full paralysis. It’s a disease caused by inflammation of nerve cells in the brain stem or spinal cord. The first polio was mentioned in Europe in the 19th century and was first reported in the United States in 1843. Michael Underwood first described this disease in children as Polio in 1789. The diseases history changed
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Pulse Polio- In 1995-96 the government of India established an immunization campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating all children under the age of five years against the polio virus. This project deals with the ways to fight poliomyelitis through a large scale immunization programmer‚ co-operating with various international institutions‚ state governments and Non Governmental Organizations. This campaign is called Pulse Polio. The vaccination for polio started around 1978
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SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a Clean India drive and Mission launched as a national campaign by the Indian Government in order to covering the 4041 statutory towns aiming maintained cleanliness of streets‚ roads and infrastructure of the country. Indian Prime Minister‚ Narendra Modi has officially launched this mission on 2nd of October (the birth anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi) in 2014 at the Rajghat‚ New Delhi (cremation of Bapu). While launching the event Prime Minister himself
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NIRMAL BHARAT ABHIYAN 1. Introduction: To accelerate the progress of sanitation in rural areas‚ Government of India is implementing from 1.4.2012‚ the ‘Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA)’‚ a Centrally Sponsored Scheme [earlier Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)]. Similarly‚ to provide drinking water to rural population in adequate quantity‚ the Govt. of India is implementing a centrally sponsored Scheme called the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). New Delhi: The union cabinet Wednesday gave
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Conquering Polio Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Jonas Salk Biography on Jonas Salk By Garrett Hoover Jonas Salk was born on October 28‚ 1914 in New York City. It was here four years later he asked himself why some of the kids on his street were crippled while he had two strong legs. Scientist still had not found a cure or vaccine for Polio‚ a crippling and sometimes deadly virus. Salk’s parents‚ like many‚ did all they could to keep their son from getting polio. As Salk grew older he excelled
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BIODIVERSITY ESSAY & CASE STUDY In this world‚ there are over 12‚000 diseases caused by either bacteria or viruses‚ and most of them are yet to be discovered. One of the dreadful diseases revealed is polio (which is shortened for poliomyelitis) (Ballard). The polio virus enters the body through the mouth‚ multiplies in the throat and intestine‚ and spreads through the blood to the central nervous system. Thus‚ the virus attacks the CNS‚ which can lead to paralysis. The paralysis would start with
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Poliomyelitis (shortened to polio) has been around for thousands of years‚ and there is still no cure‚ but at the peak of its devastation in the United States‚ Dr. Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. Polio attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system‚ causing muscle wasting‚ paralysis‚ and even death. The disease‚ whose symptoms are flu like‚ stuck mostly children‚ and in the first half of the 20th century the epidemics of polio were becoming more devastating. Salk
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