Polio

Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms. Before a polio vaccine became available several polio epidemics had occurred between 1948 and 1955.

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This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or.

. Polio can be prevented with vaccine. Ad Polio is a health condition thats a lot less common today than a few decades ago and in. Consider polio in patients with polio-like symptoms especially if the person is unvaccinated incompletely vaccinated recently traveled abroad to a place where polio still occurs or was exposed to a person who recently traveled to one of these areas.

Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus. The first case of polio reported in the US. In the United States polio has been brought into the country.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like. Some parents wouldnt let their children play with new friends and regularly.

Polio used to be common in the United States. Inactivated polio vaccine IPV is the only polio. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.

Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it. 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. Thanks to the polio vaccine weve come close to ending polio but it continues to threaten communities in parts of the globe.

The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Ad Expertise on Every Level to Craft Science Technology Solutions in Life Science. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their.

Only healthcare workers with evidence of complete polio vaccination should attend to the. Before the polio vaccine the disease killed thousands of people and paralyzed about 15000 each year. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.

The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle eg. Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease. This is a MedPage Today story.

It is caused by the poliovirus. Wild polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated no longer exist and wild polio type 1. Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material.

There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3. Many people avoided crowds and public gatherings such as fairs sports games and swimming pools during this time due to concern about getting polio. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines.

Development of Thermostable Lyophilized Sabin. It causes mild or no symptoms in most people but in some people it can cause paralysis or death. 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.

In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. Polio virus illustration.

Poliomyelitis polio Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

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