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“They sat on fold-up beach chairs and were talking about polio. The older ones, like his grandmother, had lived through the city's 1916 epidemic and were lamenting the fact that in the intervening years science had been unable to find a cure for the disease or come up with an idea of how to prevent it. Look at Weequahic, they said, as clean and sanitary as any section in the city, and it's the worst hit. There was talk, somebody said, of keeping the colored cleaning women from coming to the neighborhood for fear that they carried the polio germs up from the slums. Somebody else said that in his estimation the disease was spread by money, by paper money passing from hand to hand. The important thing, he said, was always to wash your hands after you handled paper money or coins. What about the mail, someone else said, you don't think it could be spread by the mail? What are you going to do, somebody retorted, suspend delivering the mail? The whole city would come to a halt.”

Germs Epidemic Polio

Book:Nemesis

Source: Nemesis

“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.”

Life Humor Funny Science Prayer Pray Superstition Save Polio Vaccine Inoculate

Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination”

Years States Names United Behinds Cases United States Issues Mass Introduction Lurking Viral Polio Vaccinations Meningitis

Author:Viera Scheibner

“Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.”

Used Sports Term Player Example Protect Program Connections Active Protection Aids Soccer Kicks Swim Hiv Protect You Helmet Malaria Soccer Player Polio

Author:Carol Bellamy

“My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.”

Would Be Mother Walks Accepting Fate College Doctors West Defeat Fighter Champion Tennis Singles Cripples Polio

Author:Uzo Aduba

“When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.”

Wells Children Remember Vaccines Polio Measles Whooping Cough Pertussis

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.”

Way Stills Class Dangerous Baby Birth Beats Vaccines Epidemics Birth Control Polio Polio Vaccine

Author:Mary Calderone

“There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.”

Looks Government Cases Support Solutions Aids Top Down Polio Smallpox Government Aid

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.”

Ifs Years Country Poor Cases Focus Incredibles Spread Intense Zero Poor Countries Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.”

“So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.”

Thinking Needs Trying Children Real Problem Bigs Causes Numbers Mistake Study Figures Keys Disease Evidence Wide Range Autism Vaccines Big Problems Polio

Author:David Oshinsky

“When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.”

Thinking Imagination Theory Guides Experiments Realms Phenomenon Intuitive Vaccines Polio Polio Vaccine

Author:Jonas Salk

“I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.”

Ifs Knows Used Father Stars Football Balls Over It Exes Glue Polio Chorus Line

Author:Matthew West

“We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.”

World Type Polio

Author:Seth Berkley

“Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.”

“Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.”

Cases Security Disease Percent Areas Vulnerable Ninety Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.”

Special Disease Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.”

Thinking Philosophy Disease Good Things Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“I think disease and all the things that we treat are tied to national security in a lot of ways that we maybe don't realize or that the American people don't realize. If other countries have a chance to be stable, then that helps us. If there are ways we can prevent if there are ways we can help other countries defeat diseases, we're about to totally eradicate polio. And can you imagine? That would be so terrific.”

“I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven, to cure polio. When Dr. Salk did that I was really pissed off.”

Bigs Kids Heaven Fantasy Angel Ugly Cures Shy Drs Pissed Off Polio Fantasy Life

Author:Cher

“A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.”

People Thinking Kind Inspiration Passion Polio

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.”

Years Stills Kids Suffering Years Ago Jamaica Polio

Author:Ziggy Marley

“India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.”

Want Years Helping Kids Cases Right Now Activity Computer Models India Guides Campaigns Hopeful Location Pakistan Taliban Paralyzed Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“Somebody bought me a Snuggie as a joke gift. Haha, the joke's on you, I enjoy it. I toss and turn at night, finally a blanket that's like, 'I'm going to keep you warm.' It's like having a small child with polio keep you in a full nelson - the perfect pressure.”

Children Night Turns Enjoy Perfect Jokes Pressure Warm Blanket Toss Small Child Nelson Haha Polio

Author:Daniel Tosh

“Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.”

Humans Used Found Existence Creativity Fire Presses Wheels Printing Vaccines Printing Press Polio Polio Vaccine

Author:Naveen Jain

“When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. And part of that is coming up with a vaccine that will work like the vaccines we have for hepatitis B or flu or polio.”

Thinking Can Do Cancer Flu Vaccines Prevention Polio Hepatitis

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.”

Ifs Thinking Should Kind Doe Play Government Roles Risk Approach Goods New Things Philanthropy Risk-taking Polio New Approach

Author:Bill Gates

“I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.”

Thinking Done Problem Involved Disease Foundation Starting Cancer Finishing Malaria Polio Solved Problems Infectious Diseases Starting Up

Author:Bill Gates

“I do not argue that nature is sacrosanct in the sense that we must never tamper with nature. That would disempower, really, all of medicine. That would mean that we can't combat dread diseases - malaria, polio, all of which are given by nature, if one thinks about it.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Given Disease Medicine Arguing Combat Dread Malaria Polio

Author:Michael Sandel

“I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.”

People Thinking Said Whole Together Young Community Generations Aids Neglected Complacent Polio Young Generation

Author:Charlize Theron

“As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.”

People Children Suffering Effects Policy Scientist University Sooner Or Later Taliban Columbia Wheelchairs Polio Columbia University

Author:Noam Chomsky

“With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.”

Years Whole Bits Cases Gone Regions Parallels Setback Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.”

Years Two Country Problem Next Numbers Cases Disease Zero Afghanistan Other Countries Pakistan Instability Polio Smallpox

Author:Bill Gates

“In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.”

Way I Can Bigs Government Would Be Effort Behinds Resources Foundation Partners Being The Best Hiv Vaccines Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.”

People Ifs Whole Helping Progress Plans Groups Type Disease Computer Models Medicine Insight Math Driven Institute Computer Science Seattle Malaria Modelling Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.”

Greater Miracle Vaccines Polio Antibiotics Smallpox

Author:Bill Gates

“It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.”

Ifs Hard Population Polio Vaccinations

Author:Greg Graffin

“If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.”

Ifs Giving Use Safe Autism Versus Vaccines Polio Jenny Polio Vaccine

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.”

Two Feelings Lost Week Periods Pounds Joints Two Weeks Coordination Polio

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio.”

Men Persons Boys Ten Humorous Witty Deranged Polio

Author:Woody Allen

“Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.”

People Ideas War Natural One Day Murder Disaster Bunch Good Ideas Vaccines Natural Disaster Polio Polio Vaccine

Book:Assassination Vacation

Source: Assassination Vacation

“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303”

“Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.”

Soul Walking Polio Walk By Faith

Book:The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons

Source: The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons

“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.”

World Looks Littles Eating Civilized Weed Nostalgic Inconvenience Squirrels Polio

Author:David Sedaris

“[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

People Wells Sun Humility Vaccines Patents Polio

Author:Jonas Salk

“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.”

Ifs Want Trying Children Religion Praying Our Children Atheist Your Children Polio

Author:Carl Sagan

“Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?”

Way Teaching Right Now Folks Phones Educational Crippled Doing Right Polio Rotary

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC. Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.”

“When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.”

Wells Children Two Three Sleep Months Vaccines Three Months Polio Sleep Well Polio Vaccine

Author:Jonas Salk

“I am no saviour. I’m absolutely the last person on the planet who can practically help. I don’t know how to make the different types of therapeutic feeding milk. I’m no chemist. I’m no doctor. I’m no engineer. I can’t manufacture polio vaccines or organise their transportation to the health centres in Saramoussayah or Bissikirima. I can’t build schools, or design drainage systems. I can’t provide the women and children of Mandiana with water.All I can do now is help make people aware of what is happening, of what they are doing. That is all that I can do. For now.”

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