Polio

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Before the polio vaccine the disease had been a major cause of disability in children.

. 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. This is a MedPage Today story. In the 20th century compared with none in 2020.

Polio is caused by a virus. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday. Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness.

We can thank the creation of the polio vaccine or more accurately polio vaccines for. Most people who get polio dont have any symptoms. Paresthesia feeling pins and needles.

Post-polio syndrome PPS is a non-contagious condition that can affect polio survivors usually 15 to 40 years after recovery from polio. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Polio or poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that can strike at any age and affects a persons nervous system.

Sometimes polio can affect the brain and lead to serious and permanent complications like. The first case of polio reported in the US. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines.

It is highly contagious and can be spread by people who arent yet symptomatic. 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. About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US.

Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Only a polio survivor can develop PPS it is not contagious.

People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their feces. Polio is a serious and life-threatening disease the state health department said. The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US.

The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

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