Polio

Polio is short for poliomyelitis Its a virus that spreads easily between people who arent vaccinated. But most people shouldnt be concerned about contracting the virus because of high vaccination rates.

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Polio symptoms include fever fatigue and muscle pain.

. The disease can also spread through droplets from a sneeze or cough of an infected person. The disease was common in the UK in the 1950s but was eliminated by 2003. Polio is detected in New York Citys wastewater - confirming that at least one person carried the virus.

Polio is entirely preventable and its reappearance should be a call to action for all of us Most people infected with polio have no symptoms but. The polio virus has been detected in wastewater from New York City suggesting the virus is likely circulating in the city New Yorks health authorities said Friday. At the height of the biggest-ever outbreak in.

Some states only require three doses. NEW YORK AP The polio virus has been found in New York Citys wastewater in another sign that the disease which hadnt been seen in the US. Symptoms can take as long as 30 days to develop.

The virus that causes polio has been detected in a concerning number of sewage samples in London health officials have said. In its most severe form it can attack your spinal cord and brain and cause paralysis. More than 35000 people became paralyzed from polio.

A polio case identified in New York last month is just the very very tip of the iceberg and an indication there must be several hundred cases in. Dautres pourront souffrir dune polio sans paralysie dont les symptômes sont les suivants. Polio is highly contagious and often begins with symptoms similar to the flu such as fatigue fever headache muscle pain vomiting and stiffness.

The virus is released into wastewater through the feces of infected individuals. The CDC confirmed that a patient in New York has contracted polio the first US. Most adults do not need the.

Initial symptoms are fever fatigue. It invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. Poliomyelitis polio for short has been a cause of life-threatening paralysis for thousands of years.

Polio struck fear into parents hearts in the 1940s before vaccines were available. Getting stool or cough droplets. Maux de tête.

A small number of infected people - between one in a thousand and one in a hundred - develop more serious problems where polio invades the. 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. Poliomyelitis or polio is a highly infectious viral disease that mostly affects the under-fives.

Raideur ou douleur dans la nuque. The announcement came after. Citys 86 vaccination rate is well below 95 threshold needed to control outbreak.

The presence of the poliovirus in the citys wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the. People contract polio by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the virus according to the CDC. The CDC recommends children get four doses of the polio vaccine at ages 2 months 4 months 618 months and 46 years.

Three types of poliovirus can cause infection but after mass-vaccination programmes the disease. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. In a decade is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people health officials said Friday.

This causes paralysis - usually of the. A small number of infected people - between one in a thousand and one in a hundred - develop more serious problems where polio invades the nervous system.

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