Polio

There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3. Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms.

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Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.

. Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like. Wild polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated no longer exist and wild polio type 1. Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus.

Ad Single place to edit collaborate store search and audit PDF documents. 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 highly infectious devastating virus that can cause paralysis.

Around 72 of people infected with polio have no visible symptoms according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Is inactivated polio vaccine IPV.

This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their. The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person. Since 2000 the only polio vaccine used in the US. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. This vaccine is given as a shot in the arm or leg is very safe and protects against severe disease including paralysis. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines.

Ad Polio is a health condition thats a lot less common today than a few decades ago and in. Upload Edit Sign PDF Documents from any device. Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material.

Polio virus illustration. This is a MedPage Today story. The first case of polio reported in the US.

Busting common myths about vaccines 0520. CNN A person from Rockland County New York has been diagnosed with polio the first case identified in the United States in nearly a decade. Inactivated polio vaccine IPV may sometimes be given in the same shot with other vaccines also called combination vaccines.

More than 35000 people became. Another 25 may develop flulike symptoms such as sore throat. The virus struck fear into parents hearts in the 1940s before vaccines were available.

It causes mild or no symptoms in most people but in some people it can cause paralysis or death.

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