Polio

This is a MedPage Today story. Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms.

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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.

. Around 72 of people infected with polio have no visible symptoms according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus. The virus struck fear into parents hearts in the 1940s before vaccines were available.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. 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 first case of polio reported in the US.

Polio is a highly infectious devastating virus that can cause paralysis. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday. More than 35000 people became.

The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Symptoms can take as long as 30 days to develop. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle eg.

Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it. Ad Polio is a health condition thats a lot less common today than a few decades ago and in. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines.

Pronounced PO-lee-oh Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease. Another 25 may develop flulike symptoms such as sore throat. It causes mild or no symptoms in most people but in some people it can cause paralysis or death.

Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like. It is caused by the poliovirus. Wild polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated no longer exist and wild polio type 1.

Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3. Poliomyelitis polio Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their. Polio is an infection caused by the poliovirus. Polio can be prevented with vaccine.

About 1 in 4 infected people have flu-like symptoms including sore throat fever tiredness nausea headache and stomach pain.

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