Polio

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deployed a federal team to. Poliomyelitis polio is a highly infectious viral disease that largely affects children under 5 years of age.

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But records suggest it dates back to as early as 1570 BC in ancient Egypt.

. Most people recover completely but a small number experience muscle and nerve damage that result in lifelong disability. Some 116 polio viruses have been found from 19 sewage samples in London from February to July though most are less worrisome vaccine. The virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or less frequently by a common vehicle eg.

Although you can get polio at any age kids under 5 have the highest risk of getting it. However the virus has been detected this year in. Polio epidemics when the virus is constantly spreading within a community did not start happening until the late 1800s.

Polio is a virus that spreads easily between people who arent vaccinated. It has mostly been wiped out from developed countries but outbreaks remain in Pakistan Afghanistan and parts of Africa. Children under 10 living in London are being urged to get a polio vaccine booster as the virus is confirmed to be spreading in the capital for the first time since the 1980s.

The virus which can cause paralysis has been found 116 times in. Polio is a disease often spread in water that mostly affects children under 5. The case was detected in an unvaccinated 20-year-old man.

It has mostly been wiped out from developed countries but outbreaks remain in Pakistan Afghanistan and parts of Africa. Polio is caused by poliovirus. Jonas Salk created a.

Children living in London will be offered an extra dose of the polio vaccine following the discovery of poliovirus in sewage in the. Australia has been officially polio-free since 2000. It is a serious disease that can lead to long-term disability paralysis and death.

Infected patients would be placed in an air-tight tube with their heads outside and the machine decreased. Polio can lead to the death of infected patients when the paralysis is immobilizing their breathing muscles. Contaminated water or food and multiplies in the intestine from where it can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis.

Polio is a disease often spread in water that mostly affects children under 5. However the committee notes non-immune children are at risk. The polio vaccine has proven nearly 100 effective at preventing illness which is why widespread vaccination campaigns led to US.

During the mid-twentieth century the polio epidemic was so severe in the United States that tens of thousands of people were crippled by it every year. Bill Gates whose foundation funds polio vaccines warns that the diseases reemergence in New York is a threat to us all. New York state confirmed a case of polio.

It usually spreads through contact with the poo of an infected person. Polio is caused by a virus that spreads easily from person to person. POLIO is a serious viral infection which was largely eliminated in the UK thanks to vaccination.

No cases of polio or related paralysis have yet been reported and the JCVI says paralysis from vaccine-derived polioviruses is rare. 5 To prevent the death by suffocation Harvard professors Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw invented the so called iron lung 6 shown in the picture in 1928. Polio is present in only a few countries in the world.

The individual was an unvaccinated adult. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates through the Bill Melinda Gates. For example from not washing your hands properly and putting them in your mouth or from contaminated food or water.

It was believed to have originated outside the US. All children aged one to nine and living in Greater London will be offered a polio vaccine after the virus was detected in sewage.

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