Polio

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The virus spreads from person to person and can infect a persons spinal cord causing paralysis cant move parts of the body. There is no cure but there are safe and effective vaccines to prevent polio.

Charles Hudson Bynum Post Polio

Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material.

. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Poliomyelitis commonly shortened to polio is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Today despite a worldwide effort to wipe out polio poliovirus continues to affect children and adults in parts of Asia and.

More than 35000 people became paralyzed from polio. This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or. In a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache neck stiffness and paresthesia.

Polio is a contagious viral illness that in its most severe form causes nerve injury leading to paralysis difficulty breathing and sometimes death. In the US the last case of naturally occurring polio was in 1979. Polio is a virus that spreads easily between people who arent vaccinated.

Although you can get polio at any age kids under 5 have the highest risk of getting it. 22 hours agoPolio struck fear into parents hearts in the 1940s before vaccines were available. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle for example contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine.

Approximately 70 of cases are asymptomatic mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever. These symptoms usually pass within one or two weeks. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

A polio case identified in New York last month is just the very very tip of the iceberg and an indication there must be several hundred cases in. The disease was eradicated in the US. Polio virus illustration.

In 1979 and the country hasnt seen a case of domestically acquired wild polio since. The recent New York patient was infected with vaccine-derived polio a strain linked to weakened live virus from an oral polio vaccine thats no longer. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.

The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected persons spinal cord causing paralysis cant move parts of the body. Polio or poliomyelitis is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus. Polio or poliomyelitis is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by poliovirus.

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