Polio

This vaccine is given as a shot in the arm or leg is very safe and protects against severe disease including paralysis. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday.

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Many people avoided crowds and public gatherings such as fairs sports games and swimming pools during this time due to concern about getting polio.

. The virus struck fear into parents hearts in the 1940s before vaccines were available. Symptoms can take as long as 30 days to develop. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Ad Polio is a health condition thats a lot less common today than a few decades ago and in. It causes mild or no symptoms in most people but in some people it can cause paralysis or death.

There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3. Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like. Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease.

Inactivated polio vaccine IPV may sometimes be given in the same shot with other vaccines also called combination vaccines. Polio is a highly infectious devastating virus that can cause paralysis. Is inactivated polio vaccine IPV.

Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it. 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. The first case of polio reported in the US.

Polio can be prevented with vaccine. Polio is a life-threatening disease that is highly contagious. Some parents wouldnt let their children play with new friends and regularly.

Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. Wild polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated no longer exist and wild polio type 1.

The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle eg. Before a polio vaccine became available several polio epidemics had occurred between 1948 and 1955. Poliomyelitis polio Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus. This is a MedPage Today story.

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. Inactivated polio vaccine IPV is the only polio. More than 35000 people became.

It is caused by the poliovirus. Upload Edit Sign PDF Documents from any device. The virus can spread from person to person and people can pass it to others even if.

Polio is an infection caused by the poliovirus. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines. Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms.

Since 2000 the only polio vaccine used in the US. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

About 1 in 4 infected people have flu-like symptoms including sore throat fever tiredness nausea headache and stomach pain. Ad Single place to edit collaborate store search and audit PDF documents.

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