polio actually have any physical symptoms so it's hard to develop that will so the polio Campaign which is so
Polio vaccine was 1955.
Polio and the vaccine for polio .
of polio .
it polio on the other hand you can't see it uh unless somebody
I had polio in 1949.
I had polio . So the level of impact the virus had on me is much more significant than most people who had polio .
not what polio would-- all of these viruses kind of come in, do things, make a lot of new viruses, and transmit very quickly.
There was polio , pneumonia, dysentery, all these diseases that spread rampantly.
And an accident called polio .
We invented the polio vaccine, the iPhone, and the Doritos Locos taco.
I left of surviving polio and becoming a member of a Greek Orthodox Church, and many other things.
We need to address polio .
and had polio -- and so he couldn't compete with me.
He made polio out of synthetic chemicals and was hated for it.
so many people who had polio .
And when I struck for the polio and also, I mean, during the Vietnam, the Saigon fall in 1975.
carry going across airports I think polio eradications already cost about 10
And they might not think that polio is a priority, right?
They don't know what polio is.
My father developed the first effective vaccine against polio in the 1950s.
When you go back to the news reports on polio back in the early part of the last century, it's written in such a way that people never
And she couldn't walk very well because she had polio when she was-- Yeah, she had-- and an accident.
close to eradicating there have only been 17 cases of polio in Pakistan seven cases in Afghanistan two or three in
eradicate small poox we've had a vaccine against polio for 60 years it takes
But there's been so many resources devoted to polio compared to other health issues, that it also has created a perception that it
Because what was he doing by making fake polio ?
And that was a really part of his character that he developed after he got polio .
And that was a really part of his character that he developed after he got polio .
But during the time when I got-- my parents found out that I had polio , and they very frustrated and also devastated.
So finally he found out there's another program that can help children had polio can come to Germany to get treatment.
He cured polio .
Just as today nobody gets tuberculosis, nobody gets polio , it's going to be like this.
You see, my legs are very similar to someone that's got polio .
And like other viruses, for example, polio virus or common cold virus, it's what we call an enveloped virus.
And later on when I came to the state, the doctor diagnosis as a post polio .
or yeah I think it's a great question I'm I'm often asked to compare the eradication of polio with the
I can make the door before you can get to me, polio or not.
Have we change the kinds of microbes that attack us, as we take out smallpox and polio ?
The urge, for example, to eradicate polio , and the amount of resources-- so polio is not good.
When I was growing up, people were looking for money for polio , and smallpox.
He was the guy, who with his team in the 1950s, developed the first polio vaccine.
But if you go to Africa or Asia, for example, where there are many survivors of polio today, I love going there because I get to meet
And diseases, including smallpox, tuberculosis, and polio , were, for all intents and purposes, eradicated.
And then by the time I am two and a half years old, I got contracted with polio .
And we're going to look back 30, 40 years from now and say, we were people like polio , looking at polio the same way.
And he was describing his mentor, who happened to be Jonas Salk, who came up with the cure for polio among other things.
And then he went into this story about his mentor, who is this giant personality-- you know, found the cure for polio , did all these amazing things.
Oh, yeah, one more thing-- we left out that he survived polio and that he also has recently become a member of the Greek Orthodox Church
pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria, polio , AIDS-- and many