"A fascinating account of the world's most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere. Doctors, parents, and health officials were at a loss to explain why this formerly unheard-of disease began paralyzing so many children - usually starting in their legs, sometimes moving up through their abdomen and arms. For an unfortunate few, it could paralyze the muscles that allowed them to breathe. Why did this disease start to ...
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"A fascinating account of the world's most famous disease - polio - told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage in the early 1900s, seemingly out of nowhere. Doctors, parents, and health officials were at a loss to explain why this formerly unheard-of disease began paralyzing so many children - usually starting in their legs, sometimes moving up through their abdomen and arms. For an unfortunate few, it could paralyze the muscles that allowed them to breathe. Why did this disease start to become such a horrible problem during the late 1800s? Why did it affect children more often than adults? Why was it originally called teething paralysis by mothers and their doctors? Why were animals so often paralyzed during the early epidemics when it was later discovered most animals could not become infected? The Moth in the Iron Lung is a fascinating biography of this horrible paralytic disease, where it came from, and why it disappeared in the 1950s. If you've never explored the polio story beyond the tales of crippled children and iron lungs, this book will be sure to surprise."
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"We have met the enemy, and he is us." This book is a factual walk through the history of the horrifying illness that struck in an odd conjunction with the use of DDT and its predecessors like Paris Green. While not directly stating directly that DDT caused Polio (or that the subsequent discontinuation of DDT and not the Salk vaccine was the reason the epidemic ended), the author notes that DDT made poliomyelitis more likely due to the effects of DDT exposure to the lining of the spinal cord. This book so closely correlates to Silent Spring that the two should be sold together, and this book should be required reading in college courses about the dangers of the blithe over-use of chemicals which continues today.