Polio Revisited part 1

Polio had the power to paralyze a president and mobilize an entire nation toward an unprecedented public health response. To most Americans the disease was eradicated once Jonas Salk’s vaccine became available but the threat of Polio has not really gone away. Now decades later, some Polio victims who thought they had recovered are finding that their old symptoms are returning decades later in the form of Post Polio Syndrome. To make matters worse, isolated cases of Polio are popping up again in both American children who have failed to be immunized and by American tourists who have contracted Polio during their travels. An estimated one million youngsters are not vaccinated and vulnerable to an opportunistic infection.
Part 1
Polio survivors share their accounts of what it was like to live through the polio epidemic as children. Historian Dr. Daniel Wilson, author of the book “Polio Voices” leads us through a brief history of polio and its first U.S. outbreaks. An animation shows how the polio virus infects the human body.

[@guesswho111]

My sister had post polio syndrome. She got sick in 1948. My mother was frantic with fear and she now had other children that she worried about. In 1955 my mother lined her children and we became one of the first polio subjects vacinated in the United States. The subject of polio was never mention in my home of orgin. But it hung like a silent black shadow over our household. As the years went on my sweet sister developed many physical problems. And she complained of pain. Her left leg was stunted. Finally 2018 she died in her bed of natural causes. I was so grateful finally my beloved sister was no longer in pain. The polio epidemic that took place in the 1940's and 1950's were not a joke. Anyone who is not vaccinating is not being a responsible parent.

[@stupidgirl0418]

Free2 choose I'm really sorry that your sweet sister was in so much Polio is a horrible disease and I PRAY THAT IT DOENST COME BACK

[@hi7607]

Im not vaccined and i dont have polio because im from israel but im cuban and cuba has polio and it makes me sad but i just wanted to say something:my mom met someone with polio

[@killian8315]

Yumi With Ketchup tell your mom that you need to

[@ronderulijkummar7453]

And some parents home school their kids so they don't have to vaccinate them! It's fucking sick !!

[@Plumeria808]

Amen. The only people that are truly educated are the ones who see the diseases themselves. Just like covid

[@JSBecc]

Not vaccinating your children is like not using a car seat, not baby proofing your home, and not locking up your guns. I know, my older sister had Polio and I spent my entire childhood seeing the ravages of it firsthand, as we made endless trips to Georgia Warm Springs for her many checkups, surgeries, and fitting of braces and crutches which had to be replaced as a child grows. It’s a terrible burden on a family psychologically, financially, and spiritually.

[@KeithAvila]

Vaccines are poison. I would never inject my son with that stuff. I think that people who poison others should be imprisoned especially if you are hurting children.

[@JSBecc]

@@KeithAvila If you wish to risk your child’s life due to misguided propaganda then by all means go for it!

[@KeithAvila]

@@JSBecc your comment is so fitting😂 wish you would read your own comment a couple times and realize what you said lol

[@JSBecc]

@@KeithAvila There is none so blind as he who will not see. My child is grown, healthy, successful and fully vaccinated.

[@KeithAvila]

@@JSBecc i haven’t been vaccinated since I was 6 and I don’t allow my son to get government mandated injections or any poison injections and we are just fine. In fact we get sick a lot less than vaccinated I noticed in multiple instances. In fact dozens of instances that when people inject those poisons then they usually get sick the same exact day and sometimes within 1-2 hours of the government enforced poisons. My friend got sick 2 times right after all the while I was healthy the whole time Y’all drinking that cool aid a little too much

[@mariekatherine5238]

My mother’s best friend got polio in 1947 at age 23. She was newly married and had just moved into a new home. She managed to stay out of the iron lung, but her left leg became contracted.

[@Maddie9185]

At the gym that I go to there is a gentleman that contracted polio when he was 4 years old, and he has been in a wheelchair ever since. He has told me all about his struggles growing up. But he also said that it has never held him back.

[@emilygilbeyful]

Schools,nurseries and colleges should all have to insist on proof of vaccination by law to make the decision not to vaccinate children much harder as parents would have to homeschool!

[@tomarasmith4459]

The is good reasons why parents chose not to vaccinate. My uncle had polio he is still alive and none of the other 5 children caught it. My son got his 1st shots and damned near died. After that MY child will NEVER get ANY vaccinate until he is an adult.

[@tkow6762]

@@tomarasmith4459 then what happend to him? He couldnt breathe or what?

[@tasidasilva7897]

hard to forget polio even though im only 29 now. my mom said she went to visit my family in Brazil and there was a polio survivor there from before the vaccine came out. she had twisted little legs and could barely walk. my grandpa always told me stories about how scary and fucked it was too.

[@Moffeliten]

I can't accept how parents want their children to get this disease.

[@Dalalaa]

I cried for a hour after watching this

[@cs5889]

My grandfather got polio right before the vaccine came out he was paralyzed for the rest of his life but still managed to have 4 children and live a full life.

[@jamesdot1700]

I am getting a vaccine ASAP after the start of this video.. Has it mutated scene 1950?

[@sarahgray5150]

James Dot did you get your vaccine?

[@hectorherveyperaltaportela7607]

Nop it hasnt

[@joshklein9830]

Are there any precautions being made to stop polio-infected immigrants from coming into the US?

[@paolasin05]

JishJosh :P just tell your friends to have their baby vaccinated

[@moner-kiksin]

Do you only get a polio vaccine once

[@DavidWasserVideo]

yes

[@薛陳月美-r6f]

Only Survivor yeah, and you’ll never get it again

[@mr.perfect9072]

Wtf is going on

[@izyltex]

its good we have vaccines now, i hope these people are ok God bless them

[@YGoose357]

I live in farrockaway scary

[@Cheerleader1Waverley]

Why did only children get it

[@DavidWasserVideo]

Adults got it, too.

[@andrearich7351]

Roosevelt got it in his 30s

[@Noblebird02]

Where there iron lungs before 1928?

[@mscaptainzebra]

i hate needles and shots i absolutely hate getting shots or blood pulled but its life

[@Amberussianbeauty]

The question is how the fck is it in United States, how the fck did it get in???

[@anselmgademann9407]

I‘m living in Hungary, I’m 10 And instead of having to go to a doctor and spend like 100 $ or so Schools make it a need to get vaccinated for free if you haven’t gotten vaccinated yet wich in my opinion is a much better decision than letting people think not vaccinating is better than getting vaccinated Cough cough,.... Karens... cough cough