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. Short for poliomyelitis polio is a disabling and life-threatening disease spread from person to person mainly through contamination by feces according to the Centers for Disease Control.

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20 hours 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.

. Polio spreads through the fecal-oral route. But most people with polio will not have any symptoms and will fight. The UNs health agency has called for OPV to be phased out worldwide and replaced with inactivated polio vaccine IPV.

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. Children younger than 5 years old are more likely to contract the virus than. 17 hours agoPoliomyelitis or polio is a highly infectious viral disease that mostly affects the under-fives.

The disease attacks the nervous system and in some extreme cases can. This can occur over a few hours to a few days. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.

The weakness most often involves the legs but may less commonly involve the muscles of the head neck and diaphragm. The disease was previously common in the UK. Polio also known as poliomyelitis is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Thomas Magath sits next to the first shipment of the polio vaccine at Mayo Clinic in 1955. 20 hours agoPolio is spreading in Britain for the first time in nearly 40 years health officials have warned as they declared a national incident and urged people to make sure they are vaccinated.

The first polio vaccine arrives at Mayo Clinic on April 13 1955 one day after its licensed in the US. From the age of 3. No cure exists for the symptoms but in the 1950s effective vaccines were developed and have been used around the world since then.

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. 15 hours agoPOLIO is a rare yet serious infection that is easily spread through coughing and sneezing. Poliomyelitis commonly shortened to polio is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative GPEI was founded in 1988 to fight the viruss spread and disease burden with a global vaccination. 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. There is no cure but there are safe and effective vaccines to prevent polio.

13 hours agoPolio immunization coverage in London stands at nearly 87 percent the WHO said. While a vaccine is widely available in the UK. 17 hours agoPolio is a rare virus that can occasionally cause serious illness such as paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated.

The virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected persons spinal cord causing paralysis cant move parts of the body. Authorities stressed that the risk to the public overall is extremely low They added that the virus has been detected only in sewage samples and no cases of paralysis have been reported. 15 hours 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.

Many people fully recover. There are now only pockets of polio with the virus. Polio is a life-threatening disease caused by a virus.

Three types of poliovirus can cause infection but after mass-vaccination programmes the disease. About 16000 cases of polio paralytic poliomyelitis occurred each year in the US. In the 20th century compared with none in 2020.

That is when a person accidentally consumes. 4 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. In those with muscle weakness about 2 t.

Polio Polio or poliomyelitis is a disabling and life-threatening disease caused by poliovirus. 19 hours agoBabies at 8 weeks 12 weeks and 16 weeks are vaccinated against polio as part of the 6-in-1 vaccine which also protects from tetanus whooping cough diphtheria and hepatitis B. Polio is an infectious disease that can spread from person to person and most commonly affects children under the age of five.

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. In 2003 can cause paralysis in rare cases and can be life-threatening. 9 hours agoPolio causes permanent paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated in about 5 out of every 1000 cases.

12 hours agoPolio which was officially eradicated in the UK.

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