Polio
Polio was the disease that tore through the world unlike any other disease had before. It is a disease that changed everyone’s life by instilling fear and discrimination into them. Polio was physically painful for its victims but it was even more emotionally agonizing for them, their family, and their friends. Polio had a negative impact its victims because of the medical and social aspects that were associated with the disease. The fact that Polio was feared so much made it hard to finally accept that the victims of Polio were not to blame, but when people realized that there was a way to prevent Polio, it created tolerance. Because of medical advancements and public awareness, those disabled with polio were gradually accepted into the American society. Although Polio in the 20th century was new to America, it was not the first time Polio had struck. The story of the Polio epidemic in America is recent but the actual disease dates back to the Egyptians. Thirty-five hundred years ago, an Egyptian craftsman carved a picture of a man who was crippled. Historians believe that this picture was depicting a man who had contracted Polio. During the Greek times, a Greek physician Hippocrates and his Roman disciple Galen wrote about
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Approximate Word count = 3080
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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