Polio

Ad Single place to edit collaborate store search and audit PDF documents. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.

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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.

. Some parents wouldnt let their children play with new friends and regularly. Many people avoided crowds and public gatherings such as fairs sports games and swimming pools during this time due to concern about getting polio. This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or.

Before the polio vaccine the disease killed thousands of people and paralyzed about 15000 each year. Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It is highly contagious and can be spread by people who arent yet. Upload Edit Sign PDF Documents from any device.

Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease. 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 eg.

There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3. Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Polio used to be common in the United States.

Thanks to the polio vaccine weve come close to ending polio but it continues to threaten communities in parts of the globe. Inactivated polio vaccine IPV is the only polio. In the United States polio has been brought into the country.

Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus. Polio can be prevented with vaccine. Wild polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated no longer exist and wild polio type 1.

Polio is a serious and life-threatening disease the state health department said. Stopped using the oral polio vaccine OPV in 2000 and instead uses the inactivated polio vaccine IPV which does not contain. The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material. Before a polio vaccine became available several polio epidemics had occurred between 1948 and 1955. Ad Polio is a health condition thats a lot less common today than a few decades ago and in.

It is caused by the poliovirus. Polio virus illustration. Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. 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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