2023年1月25日 · CLAIM: Polio stopped spreading when the pesticide DDT stopped being used, not when vaccines for the virus were introduced. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Polio vaccines are credited with ending epidemics of the disease in the U.S., and helping curb most cases globally, several medical experts confirmed to The Associated Press.

2024年12月20日 · Polio, a debilitating and life-threatening disease caused by a virus, has been largely eradicated in many parts of the world as a result of vaccination programs. Social media posts say the...

2023年1月26日 · Polio, a paralytic disease caused by a virus, has been eliminated in the U.S. — and nearly wiped out globally — thanks to vaccines. But social media posts are reviving old, false claims that...

2022年4月14日 · But the forgotten story of how Americans once resorted to spraying a now-banned pesticide, DDT, to combat polio is a reminder of how desperation can cloud judgment — and how only trial, error,...

2023年2月1日 · However, DDT, a compound used as an insecticide that was singled out in the post, is not linked to polio, let alone paralysis, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fact...

2022年4月14日 · In the 1940’s, at the end of WW2, a new pesticide called DDT began being used by nearly everyone and polio became much worse. Unlike lead arsenate which was sprayed onto food, DDT was sprayed directly onto children in an attempt to …

2023年1月23日 · Polio is caused by the poliovirus, not DDT pesticide, and a vaccine ended the disease’s spread in the United States. Before the polio vaccine was available, some communities used the...

2014年10月12日 · The director of the city’s Department of Health, H.L. Crittenden, ordered the spraying of DDT along every one of over a thousand streets in May, 1946 in an ill-fated attempt to wipe out polio. A handful of other cities joined in, like Rockford, Illinois, and Paterson, New Jersey.

Between the end of World War II and the early 1950s, researchers, municipal officials, and individuals from Georgia to California employed DDT to stop polio by killing flies, a suspected but debated actor in the disease’s transmission.

2021年3月31日 · In the 1950s, paralysis said to be caused by a polio virus hit 10,000 people a year. West notes that the reduction in polio cases predates widespread polio vaccination, and seems to parallel the...