Cause of Death Episode

Podcast Description:

Welcome to the second week of Powerful Women with Powerful Podcasts. This week we feature Cause of Death! Cause of Death explores past pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks. Jackie discusses infectious disease and social disease, the reactions to them, the politics behind them, and the effects they have on society.

Today’s episode is called Crippled generation: The story of poliovirus. This story is a long one, but Cause of Death does a full history of the disease from its beginning, along with a personal story from Jackie’s aunt, Dorothy Williams, who contracted polio as a child.

Now pouring Cause of Death! Listen up and learn a lot!

Cause of Death: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cause-of-death/id1566684131

Sources:

Polio Research
Etiology and Pathology:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3859295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK558944/
https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/enteroviruses/poliomyelitis

History and Current Status:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212416/
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/polio-us.html
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline#EVT_100306
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/public/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7039a1.htm?s_cid=mm7039a1_w
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034a1.htm?s_cid=mm7034a1_w

Socioeconomics of Polio:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27083562/
Vaccine Research:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221112/
The Cutter Incident:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
Dr. Paul A. Offit M.D.. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis (Kindle Location 2832). Kindle Edition.
This book is really worth the read. It not only describes the challenges of polio as a history, but also talks about why pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to make vaccines. I highly recommend it.
Steps to Eradication:
https://www.un.org/africarenewal/news/polio-no-longer-endemic-nigeria-%E2%80%93-un-health-agency
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034a1.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/progress/index.htm
mRNA vaccine research:
https://biontech.de/covid-19-portal/mrna-vaccines
The Nuremburg Code:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199711133372006