Polio

This causes paralysis - usually of the legs. The virus disabled more than 35000 people every year during that time according to the CDC.

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. Polio also called poliomyelitis is a health condition that still affects a small handful. Upload Edit Sign PDF Documents from any device. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.

Find Information on Diseases Conditions Sports Injury Personal Injury. El virus se propaga por. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines.

Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. A small number of infected people - between one in a thousand and one in a hundred - develop more serious problems where polio invades the nervous system. Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

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. La polio es una enfermedad causada por una infección con el poliovirus. It causes mild or no symptoms in most people but in some people it can cause paralysis or death.

Ad Single place to edit collaborate store search and audit PDF documents. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their feces. About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US.

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. 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. El virus entra a través de la boca y la nariz se multiplica en la garganta y en el tracto intestinal para luego ser absorbido y diseminarse a través de la sangre y el sistema linfático.

There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3. Immunization against polio represents one of humankinds greatest achievements she said. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

In the 20th century compared with none in 2020. Before the polio vaccine the disease had been a major cause of disability in children. Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis.

The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle eg. The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US. Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness.

Polio caused widespread fear in the 1940s before vaccines were available. Ad If you suspect that you might have contracted polio you should make an appointment with. Polio was almost eradicated thanks to the vaccination developed in the 1955.

Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus.

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