Polio

The virus spreads from person to person and can infect a persons spinal cord causing paralysis cant move parts of the body. There have been no cases of wild type polio acquired in the US.

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The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US.

. Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms. Ad While there are still some parts of the world that are considered a higher risk for. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.

About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US. Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines.

Polio is a serious and life-threatening disease the state health department said. Symptoms can take as long as 30 days to develop. Polio is an infection caused by the poliovirus.

About 1 in 4 infected people have flu-like symptoms including sore throat fever tiredness nausea headache and stomach pain. Polio mainly affects children younger than 5 though anyone who is unvaccinated can contract the incurable disease. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their.

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. Polio poliomyelitis is a highly contagious viral infection caused by a type of enterovirus.

There is no cure for polio but it can be prevented with safe and effective vaccination. Polio or poliomyelitis is a disabling and potentially deadly disease. Thomas Magath sits next to the first shipment of the polio vaccine at Mayo Clinic in 1955.

Its highly contagious and people can spread the virus before they start showing symptoms which can take as. In the long term 25 to 40 of children who recover from paralytic polio get. In the 20th century compared with none in 2020.

It is characterized by paralysis or weakness in arms legs or both. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It is caused by the poliovirus.

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.

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