The global eradication of poliomyelitis is a public health effort to eliminate all cases of poliomyelitis (polio) infection around the world. The global effort, begun in 1988 and led by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and The Rotary Foundation, has reduced the number of annual diagnosed cases from the hundreds of thousands to around a thousand.
Yes
* Millions of children abroad remain unprotected from polio
* This year, there have been 26 recorded cases of polio around the world
Yes it does. It is simply not very common anymore in the western world where we have widespread vaccines against it. But it is still a big threat in less developed countries.
It doesn't.
Scientists were able to create a vaccine that protects people from the polio virus.
Polio is a disease caused by a virus. It causes paralysis in the muscles. If it affects the muscles of the chest, it can prevent breathing and the individual suffocates.
Polio affects the nervous system.
Jonas Salk developed the Polio Vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. Without the Polio vaccine, people today would still be suffering from the disease today.
it affects the nervous system
Post-polio syndrome is a slowly progressing weakness that affects polio survivors decades after their initial bout with the disease.
Polio is caused by a virus that attacks the central nervous system and affects the movement of muscles.
There are 3 types of poliomyelitis (polio) infection: 1. Sub-clinical: does not affect the central nervous system and patients may not experience any symptoms 2. Non-paralytic: affects the central nervous system, produces mild symptoms, and does not result in paralysis 3. Paralytic: rarest and most serious and produces full or partial paralysis in the patient. There are 3 types of paralytic polio: 1. spinal polio (affects the spine) 2. bulbar polio (affects the brainstem) 3. bulbospinal polio (affects the spine and brainstem)
There are still cases of polio out there today, so we have the vaccinations if someday we were to have another breakout of the epidemic!
The answer depends on whether you want the ratio of people in the US with polio compared to people with polio in the rest of the world (or the whole world), or the compared to people without polio in the US.
A virus that attacks the central nervous system and affects the movement of muscles.
250,000 people have died from Polio