Polio

About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.

Living With Polio

It causes mild or no symptoms in most people but in some people it can cause paralysis or death.

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Polio Case Definition and Diagnosis. Polio used to be common in the United States. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle eg.

Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US.

Consider polio in patients who have unexplained AFP. Thanks to the polio vaccine weve come close to ending polio but it continues to threaten communities in parts of the globe. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.

Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Wild polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated no longer exist and wild polio type 1 only exists in a few parts of the world. There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3.

Polio is a serious and life-threatening disease the state health department said. In the 20th century compared with none in 2020. Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness.

In the United States polio has been brought into the country by travelers in 1993 and 2022. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. Ad Polio used to be one of the feared medical conditions of its time back in the 40s and 50s.

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. Before the polio vaccine the disease killed thousands of people and paralyzed about 15000 each year. A probable case of polio is defined as an acute onset of flaccid paralysis of one or more limbs with decreased or absent tendon reflexes in the affected limbs without other apparent cause and without sensory or cognitive loss.

Post-polio syndrome is a health condition which can affect you if youve ever had polio. Before the polio vaccine the disease had been a major cause of disability in children. Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

Paralysis usually begins in the arm or leg on one side of the. 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. Immunization against polio represents one of humankinds greatest achievements she said.

Polio was almost eradicated thanks to the vaccination developed in the 1955.

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