The importance of the exposome and allostatic load in the planetary health paradigm In 1980, JonasSalk (1914-1995) encouraged professionals in anthropology and related disciplines to consider the interconnections between "planetary health," sociocultural changes associated with technological advances, and the biology of human health. The concept of planetary health emphasizes that human health
happened in the 1950s and 1960s? JonasSalk, Albert Sabin, and Mikhail Chumakov developed effective polio vaccines. Thanks to their efforts, polio is virtually unknown today except in places like Pakistan and Nigeria where folks much like this NWO Reporter fellow have managed to successfully convince large enough numbers of people that vaccines are a Bad Thing. * Log in to post commentsBy Anonymous
What ecologists can tell virologists. I pictured myself as a virus…and tried to sense what it would be like. --JonasSalk. Ecology as a science evolved from natural history, the observational study of the interactions of plants and animals with each other and their environments. As natural history matured, it became increasingly quantitative, experimental, and taxonomically broad. Focus particles. In recent years, researchers have recognized the critical contributions of viruses to fundamental ecological processes such as biogeochemical cycling, competition, community structuring, and horizontal gene transfer. This review describes virus ecology from a virus's perspective. If we are, like JonasSalk, to imagine ourselves as a virus, what kind of world would we experience?
in yearly epidemics, the fear of which led to the closure of public pools every summer. In such an environment, the new polio vaccine introduced by JonasSalk in the mid-1950s wasn’t a hard sell. In fact, satisfying the initial demand for it was the problem, not parents refusing to vaccinate their children. Since then, more and more vaccines have been developed to protect more and more children from more
, but the opposition to vaccinations is the same, just with different evils attributed to vaccines.In a past that encompasses the childhood of my parents, polio was paralyzing and killing children in large numbers in yearly epidemics, the fear of which led to the closure of public pools every summer. In such an environment, the new polio vaccine introduced by JonasSalk in the mid-1950s wasn't a hard sell. In fact
24 October was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of JonasSalk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. It marks the long and arduous journey all endemic countries have struggled against, to eradicate polio.The last mile is the hardest, but we are so close to the finish line.For more information about CDC’s Polio Eradication Efforts, visit
(not verified) on 20 Oct 2015 #permalink Bill: “23 no I am not trolling and those cell lines have died off.”I see by Narad's comment posted while I was typing mine that you are also a liar. Shame on you. * Log in to post commentsBy Chris (not verified) on 20 Oct 2015 #permalink In the words of JonasSalk" can you patent the sun?" Closed minded people allow no discussion when profits are the utmost concern . JonasSalk and his polio vaccine is now the worlds. Thank you J.S. Anyone can say "I invented this and it is good" but it does not make it the truth. 35 years ago a great doctor pulled the "okay to proceed with tests" paper from my hand and said "READ doctors will do tests for their benefit not you child's". And I have questioned ever since. * Log in to post commentsBy Bill (not verified) on 20 Oct
.” Interestingly, another well-known scientist whom many consider to have been “revolutionary” was known to place a great deal of emphasis on intuition. JonasSalk, the creator of the first inactivated polio vaccine to be licensed, even wrote a book called Anatomy of Reality: Merging Intuition and Reason.Of course, the problem that The Professor overlooks is that in science intuition is nothing if it doesn't us astray. Yes, even Albert Einstein and JonasSalk. Indeed, when called out by a commenter for most likely exhibiting confirmation bias about intuition in science and having it pointed out to her that intuition must never trump data, The Professor proves me right:Confirmation bias on my part, huh? I have to say that that is absolutely untrue. It took me quite a long time to honor and rely on my
before Sabin was ready for wide-scale testing, JonasSalk began testing his vaccine that was created through dead viruses. Salk’s vaccine worked, but only for a limited time and prevented the complications rather than the illness. Foreign colleagues believed more in Sabin’s vaccine, arranging for the vaccine to be tested and used in the Soviet Union, Mexico and several other countries. In 1960, Sabin
diseases in the world until a team led by Dr. JonasSalk developed the first successful polio vaccine. World Polio Day, held every October 24 to celebrate Salk’s birthday, is an opportunity for everyone working to eradicate polio to renew their commitment to creating a polio-free world for future generations. Today most of the world is polio-free, but the disease continues to disable children in some
backed JonasSalk's proposal to test his vaccine.[73] Bapsi Sidhwa born 1938 Author, whose novel Cracking India tells of the partition of India through the eyes of a young girl affected with polio. Sidhwa caught polio, aged two, which paralysed her leg and led to several operations. Doctors advised her parents not to send her to school; she had a lonely childhood, filled with reading.[74