ANT 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Edward Jenner, Headache, Post-Polio Syndrome
9 Feb 2016
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Polio patients gone through several surgeries, suffered from constant pain. Epidemic of the 20th century (1916) during wwi. Major challenge = didn"t know what caused the disease. First pioneers: early researchers work to find other disease. Edward jenner: first vaccine for smallpox, used cowpox to protect against smallpox. Louis pasteur: immunization, working with rabies that the disease itself can fight the infection itself. Nausea and vomiting, fever, meningitis-like illness (stiff neck, severe headache) Cause by small rna virus enterovirus highly communicable during and after the first phase fecal-oral transmission; water and food. Multiplies in the intestines, also found in the throat. Rna core is the business part of the virus, the the capsule is what is recognized by our cells. Diagnosis clinically very difficult when it doesn"t cause paralysis. Many undetected cases for every known case but virus can be isolated cultured. Treatment careful management of bedsores, problems with urination and defecation crutches, braces, wheelchair.
