HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Collective Action, Icu Scoring Systems, Biostatistics
26 Jan 2016
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Polio eradication program is the largest public health initiative in the world. Strands of genetic material wrapped in protein. Can"t live on own, goes into other cells to survive. Some enter the spinal cord and causes paralysis. The sewage system in india makes it spread fast. Obstacles for success: muslim religious leaders (cultural resistance) say to not take the vaccines because it causes side effects/death. Rumors false of 9 children died, but people still believed it. They had stores of smallpox but nothing more. (harmless) Put the pus of milk maids into his own son. Then he got put in a room with a patient with smallpox. Young boy was bitin (week most likely dead). 20th century was when scientists started to know. When vaccines go in: antibodies attach to virus. If virus goes into the cell, killer t-cells come in to kill invaded cells. World health organization global vaccination of smallpox. Total eradication was predicted to be a failure.
