Polio

Polio is a highly infectious devastating virus that can cause paralysis. Power your next discovery with top quality products and technologies from SigmaAldrich.

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Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms.

. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines. In the United States polio has been brought into the country. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday.

Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Inactivated polio vaccine IPV is the only polio. Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like.

Polio or poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that can strike at any age and affects a persons nervous system. We can thank the creation of the polio vaccine or more accurately polio vaccines for. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their.

The first case of polio reported in the US. Thanks to the polio vaccine weve come close to ending polio but it continues to threaten communities in parts of the globe. The virus struck fear into parents hearts in the 1940s before vaccines were available.

This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or. Some parents wouldnt let their children play with new friends and regularly. Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease.

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. Before the polio vaccine the disease killed thousands of people and paralyzed about 15000 each year. Polio can be prevented with vaccine.

Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material. Only a polio survivor can develop PPS it is not contagious. More than 35000 people became.

Many people avoided crowds and public gatherings such as fairs sports games and swimming pools during this time due to concern about getting polio. Ad Find information on chronic and acute pain its causes symptoms and recovery period. Ad While there are still some parts of the world that are considered a higher risk for.

It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Post-polio syndrome PPS is a non-contagious condition that can affect polio survivors usually 15 to 40 years after recovery from polio. Polio used to be common in the United States.

Ad Dedicated to making research and biotech production simpler faster and safer. It is caused by the poliovirus. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

Find Information on Diseases Conditions Sports Injury Personal Injury. This is a MedPage Today story. Polio virus illustration.

Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. 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. Before a polio vaccine became available several polio epidemics had occurred between 1948 and 1955.

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