How did Robert Cavendish die?
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Asked by: Nicole King
Born in Middleton, Derbyshire, Cavendish was affected by polio at the age of 28.
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| Robin Cavendish | |
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| Died | August 8, 1994 (aged 64) Drayton St Leonard, Oxfordshire, England |
How did Robin Cavendish catch polio?
The couple were looking forward to their life together. But just before the birth of their only child, Cavendish stumbled and fell while playing tennis, and woke in the night with an aching arm. He was losing feeling in his limbs. He was rushed to a Nairobi hospital where doctors diagnosed that he had contracted polio.
Did Robin Cavendish go to Spain?
During a visit to Spain, their van and Robin’s ventilator shorted out. The family was stranded on a Spanish roadside for over a day, waiting for Teddy to fly from England to repair the ventilator. During this time, they used a hand-pumped ventilator to keep Robin alive.
Is polio still around?
Wild poliovirus has been eradicated in all continents except Asia, and as of 2020, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries where the disease is still classified as endemic.
What causes polio?
Polio is caused by 1 of 3 types of the poliovirus. It often spreads due to contact with infected feces. This often happens from poor handwashing. It can also happen from eating or drinking contaminated food or water.
What animal did polio come from?
The discovery by Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper in 1908 that polio was caused by a virus, a discovery made by inoculating macaque monkeys with an extract of nervous tissue from polio victims that was shown to be free of other infectious agents.
What is polio called now?
According to the World Health Organization, only 22 cases of polio were reported worldwide in 2017. However, recent reports of children exhibiting a polio-like paralytic condition has sent health officials and researchers scrambling for answers. The condition is called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.
Where did polio originally come from?
The first epidemics appeared in the form of outbreaks of at least 14 cases near Oslo, Norway, in 1868 and of 13 cases in northern Sweden in 1881. About the same time, the idea began to be suggested that the hitherto sporadic cases of infantile paralysis might be contagious.
Why did polio vaccine leave a scar?
Why did scarring occur? Scars like the smallpox vaccine scar form due to the body’s natural healing process. When the skin is injured (like it is with the smallpox vaccine), the body rapidly responds to repair the tissue.
Was polio a virus or bacteria?
Polio is a viral disease which may affect the spinal cord causing muscle weakness and paralysis. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth, usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. Polio is more common in infants and young children and occurs under conditions of poor hygiene.
