Polio

This is a MedPage Today story. Symptoms can take as long as 30 days to develop.

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Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it.

. It is caused by the poliovirus. 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. Ad Polio is a health condition thats a lot less common today than a few decades ago and in.

Polio can be prevented with vaccine. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday.

The virus can spread from person to person and people can pass it to others even if. The first case of polio reported in the US. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. More than 35000 people became. Ad Single place to edit collaborate store search and audit PDF documents.

Polio is a highly infectious devastating virus that can cause paralysis. 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. The virus struck fear into parents hearts in the 1940s before vaccines were available.

About 1 in 4 infected people have flu-like symptoms including sore throat fever tiredness nausea headache and stomach pain. The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.

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People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their. Pronounced PO-lee-oh Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease. Poliomyelitis polio Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

Upload Edit Sign PDF Documents from any device. Polio is a life-threatening disease that is highly contagious. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines.

The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle eg. Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness. 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.

The first known US case of polio in nearly a decade was contracted by an unvaccinated 20-year-old man in Rockland County who had recently traveled to Poland and Hungary health officials said.

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