Polio

Most people who get polio dont have any symptoms. This is a MedPage Today story.

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. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday. In the 20th century compared with none in 2020.

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. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines. Polio can be prevented with vaccine.

The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Paresthesia feeling pins and needles.

Polio is caused by a virus. Before the polio vaccine the disease had been a major cause of disability in children. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.

Pronounced PO-lee-oh Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease. When people do get symptoms they may include. It has mostly been wiped out from developed countries but outbreaks remain in Pakistan Afghanistan and parts of Africa.

For specific vaccination recommendations visit. The first case of polio reported in the US. CDC recommends that children and adults who are unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated get polio vaccine to protect against polio or poliomyelitis.

People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their feces. Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like fatigue fever headache stiffness muscle pain vomiting can take up to 30 days to appear during which. It is caused by the poliovirus.

About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US. 2 days agoPolio is a disease often spread in water that mostly affects children under 5. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

Polio vaccine provides the best protection against polio. Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness. The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected persons brain and spinal cord causing paralysis cant move parts of the body. Sometimes polio can affect the brain and lead to serious and permanent complications like.

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