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When people do get symptoms they may include.

. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. It is caused by the poliovirus.

About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US. How common is polio. It happens mostly in children younger than 5 and in parts of the world that have not yet seen wide-scale vaccination.

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. Consider polio in patients who have unexplained AFP. Pronounced PO-lee-oh Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease.

The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. 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. Polio is extremely rare in the United States and many other countries because most people have gotten vaccinated.

In the 20th century compared with none in 2020. This is a MedPage Today story. Sometimes polio can affect the brain and lead to serious and permanent complications like.

Ad Dedicated to making research and biotech production simpler faster and safer. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday. This vaccine is given as a shot in the arm or leg is very safe and protects against severe disease including paralysis.

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. Most people who get polio dont have any symptoms. Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness.

Before the polio vaccine the disease had been a major cause of disability in children. Is inactivated polio vaccine IPV. Poliomyelitis polio is a disease caused by poliovirus.

For best protection children should get four doses of polio vaccine. Polio Case Definition and Diagnosis. Ad Polio used to be one of the feared medical conditions of its time back in the 40s and 50s.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their feces.

Polio can be prevented with vaccine. Paralysis usually begins in the arm or leg on one side of the. The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US.

Polio is caused by a virus. The first case of polio reported in the US. Post-polio syndrome is a health condition which can affect you if youve ever had polio.

Since 2000 the only polio vaccine used 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.

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