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Inactivated polio vaccine IPV is the only polio.

. Respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur. The polio virus lives in an infected persons throat and intestines. People carrying the poliovirus including those without symptoms can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their.

Polio poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus. Before the polio vaccine the disease killed thousands of people and paralyzed about 15000 each year. Ad Single place to edit collaborate store search and audit PDF documents.

This is a MedPage Today story. Wild polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated no longer exist and wild polio type 1. 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.

Consider polio in patients with polio-like symptoms especially if the person is unvaccinated incompletely vaccinated recently traveled abroad to a place where polio still occurs or was exposed to a person who recently traveled to one of these areas. It is caused by the poliovirus. In the United States polio has been brought into the country.

Find Information on Diseases Conditions Sports Injury Personal Injury. Symptoms which can be mild and flu-like. La polio es una enfermedad causada por una infección con el poliovirus.

It causes mild or no symptoms in most people but in some people it can cause paralysis or death. Contacto directo de persona a persona. El virus se propaga por.

El virus entra a través de la boca y la nariz se multiplica en la garganta y en el tracto intestinal para. In nearly a decade was detected in New York state health officials said Thursday. Each virus particle is composed of a protein coat around a core containing RNA genetic material.

Ad Polio is a health condition thats a lot less common today than a few decades ago and in. Only healthcare workers with evidence of complete polio vaccination should attend to the. Contacto con heces infectadas.

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 can be prevented with vaccine. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.

Thanks to the polio vaccine weve come close to ending polio but it continues to threaten communities in parts of the globe. Polio used to be common in the United States. Polio virus illustration.

Contacto con moco o flema infectados de la nariz o de la boca. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. This virus infects children and causes the disease poliomyelitis or.

Polio or poliomyelitis is a crippling and potentially deadly disease. There are three variations of poliovirus called wild poliovirus type 1 2 and 3 WPV1 WPV2 and WPV3. The polio virus enters the body through the mouth usually from hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.

Ad Find information on chronic and acute pain its causes symptoms and recovery period. Polio is very contagious and a person can spread the virus even if they arent sick or experiencing symptoms. The most recent outbreak of polio cases took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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