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Post-polio syndrome occurs some decades after the original infection with polio.
Post-polio syndrome is a slowly progressing weakness that affects polio survivors decades after their initial bout with the disease.
There is no evidence that Post Polis Syndrome can cause dementia, but PPS sufferers' can develop dementia which is non-related to PPS, such as Alzheimers' Disease.
No, it takes the polio virus to cause polio. The polio virus can be defeated by having a polio vaccination.
Healthline - 2006 Post-Polio Syndrome was released on: USA: 14 August 2007
Yes, post-polio syndrome occurs in individuals who have had polio typically 15-40 years after the initial infection. It is characterized by new muscle weakness or pain and can affect older patients who had polio earlier in life.
No. It is a set of neurologic symptoms which exist long after polio, itself, is experienced by the sufferer.
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Franklin Roosevelt although it may not have been polio but Guillain-Barre syndrome.
No. It is a set of neurologic symptoms which exist long after polio, itself, is experienced by the sufferer.
PPS occurs in about 25% of patients, several decades after their original infection with polio. However, long-term follow-up indicates that two thirds of polio survivors may experience new weakness.
Yes, yes, and yes. Would you take a drug to cure AIDS? Or Shingles? Ask anyone who knows someone who had polio at one time. They have post Polio syndrome. They will tell you that they wish they had had polio vaccine then when they got polio.