It's now been over 70 years since the 1950s Polio epidemic in the U.S., and doctors still haven't figured out the identity of the original host animal for this "zoonotic" disease. The word "zoonotic" means that this disease originally came from an animal host and jumped over into the human population. If doctors had figured out which animal was hosting this disease they would have known how the disease was being spread, and would have been able to save thousands of human lives. I'm not a doctor, but I know the identity of the original host animal for Polio and have known it for years. How did I do that? Easy, I used something called common sense. Unfortunately, it now seems that common sense isn't so common anymore, and that's why modern medical professionals still have not been able to correctly identify the original animal host for the Polio virus.
Polio was the scariest disease of the second half of the 1950s and was also the greatest fear of every mother in America. Polio was a summer disease, that could strike children without warning and kill or cripple them. It could also result in their confinement within the dreaded Iron Lung machine. But why did this disease always strike during the summer months, and why did it mysteriously appear after each of our world wars? Since doctors were not able to identify the original animal host for this disease, they were not able to advise parents on how to avoid their child's exposure to this deadly virus.
We suddenly found ourselves in the same position as our European ancestors in the 1300s, who didn't realize that a lack of sanitation in European cities had resulted in an overpopulation of rats, forcing nature to activate the natural mechanism of disease to reduce rat populations. Unfortunately, the fleas that were spreading the plague through the rat population also spread the plague to humans. The Bubonic (rat) plague killed millions of people in Europe, and the medical community today still reflects upon the human ignorance that resulted in so many deaths in the late Middle Ages. Unfortunately however, it seems that not much has changed, because doctors in the 1950s did not take notice of the subtle changes taking place in the natural world around them. If doctors had identified the original host animal for Polio they would have known how the virus was being spread to humans, and could have prevented the deaths and crippling of thousands of children and adults in the U.S.
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