Polio

1 day agoPolio is spread when the stool poo of an infected person comes into contact with the mouth of another person either through contaminated water or through food. Polio is an infectious disease contracted predominantly by children that can lead to the permanent paralysis of various body parts and can ultimately cause death by immobilizing the patients breathing muscles.

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. Those most at risk are children under 5. Children younger than 5 years old are more likely to contract the virus than. In the 20th century compared with none in 2020.

In those with muscle weakness about 2 t. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. 6 hours agoPolio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease which invades the nervous system and spreads mainly through contamination by.

The mummy of the pharaoh Siptah from the late 19th dynasty 13421197. Polio epidemics did not begin to occur until the latter part of the 19th century but evidence indicates that polio is an ancient disease. 19 hours agoPolio causes permanent paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated in about 5 out of every 1000 cases.

No cure exists for the symptoms but in the 1950s effective vaccines were developed and have been used around the world since then. The polio vaccine is given on the NHS when a child is eight 12 and 16 weeks old as part of the 6-in-1 vaccine. In about 05 percent of cases it moves from the gut to affect the central nervous system and there is muscle weakness resulting in a flaccid paralysis.

Thomas Magath sits next to the first shipment of the polio vaccine at Mayo Clinic in 1955. 14 hours agoVDPV2 is a type of poliovirus that comes from an oral polio vaccine which utilizes a live form of the virus unlike the injectable polio vaccine that uses an inactivated form of virus. 1 day agoPolio is a rare virus that can occasionally cause serious illness such as paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated.

9 hours agoPolio has been detected for the first time since the early-1980s in North London. It was once one of the most feared diseases in the United States but the creation of a vaccine in the 1950s ended the threat. What is polio.

This can occur over a few hours to a few days. A well-known stele from the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt 15701342 bce clearly depicts a priest with a telltale paralysis and withering of his lower right leg and foot. 22 hours agoA massive global effort has in recent decades come close to wiping out polio a crippling and potentially fatal viral disease that mainly.

1 day agoPoliovirus can spread through poor hand hygiene and contaminated food and water or less often through coughs and sneezes. We can thank the creation of the polio vaccine or more accurately polio vaccines for. There is no cure but there are safe and effective vaccines to prevent polio.

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. Polio is a life-threatening disease caused by a virus. The disease was previously common in.

According to the NHS website polio is caused by a virus that spreads easily when an infected person coughs or sneezes. About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US. A common route of transmission is for people to get contaminated hands.

In response the UKHSA United Kingdom Health Security Agency has declared a national incident and opened an. The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US. 1 day agoPolio is a contagious virus that is spread mostly through contact with fecal material and less commonly through coughs and sneezes and in.

Poliomyelitis commonly shortened to polio is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Polio Polio or poliomyelitis is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by poliovirus. Polio also known as poliomyelitis is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system.

It lives in the digestive system and throat and attacks the central nervous system. The polio virus can infect a persons spinal cord and the nerves at the base of the brain causing paralysis and in more extreme cases it can be life-threatening. Polio spreads through the fecal-oral route.

Ad While there are still some parts of the world that are considered a higher risk for. It is given again at three years. Many people fully recover.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative GPEI was founded in 1988 to fight the viruss spread and disease burden with a global vaccination. But most people with polio will not have any symptoms and will fight. It can also be caught from food or water thats been in.

1 day agoPolio is a rare disease and is spread after a person does not wash their hands properly after using the toilet and then touches food or water consumed by others or in rarer cases by coughing and. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. The weakness most often involves the legs but may less commonly involve the muscles of the head neck and diaphragm.

1 hour agoPolio its full name is poliomyelitis is a very contagious virus that is spread through contact with feces and more rarely respiratory secretions of an infected person. The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected persons spinal cord causing paralysis cant move parts of the body. There are now only pockets of polio with the virus.

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