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It usually affects your legs or arms, but in some rare cases can affect speaking, swallowing, and breathing.
Polio, also known as poliomyelitis, affects the grey matter of the spinal cord, which is the inner part of the cord.
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∙ 12y agoUsually the poliovirus enters the human body via inhalation into the respiratory tract.
OrPolio is caused by infection with the poliovirus. This virus is highly contagious, and is passed on through food and water contaminated with the stool (feces) of infected people. It can take 4 to 21 days before symptoms appear and an infected person can pass the virus on to other people even before symptoms appear.
Infection with polio happens when the virus enters the body through the mouth, multiplies in the throat and intestine, and spreads through the blood to the central nervous system. There, the virus attacks nerve cells, which can lead to paralysis.
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Contact with the feces of an infected person. Droplets from a sneeze or cough of an infected person (less common)
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∙ 13y agoAcutely it attacks the gastrointestinal system and causes diarrhea.
What it is famous for is the paralysis from attacking the nervous system.
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∙ 16y agoin the legs in the spine
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How do you describe the reproduction of polio in the body?
Polio virus can infect only human being. Like other viruses, polio virus infect the cells. After getting attached to the cell, the virus genome is inserted into the cell body. The genetic material of the host is broken into small fragments and assembled as per the genome of the polio virus. Multiple such copies are formed and then released in the body to infect the new cells.
What are you vaccinated with?
You could be vaccinated with medicines that help your body to go against chickenpox, polio or other diseases that could infect your body.
What does polio infect in your bodies?
Polio infects the central nervous system in your body. At this part of the central nervous system, nerves go to the muscles. A person is paralyzed from this level of the cord down.
What do viruses that cause physical diseases infect?
It depends on what kind of virus. Viruses can infect any cell in the human body. Viruses such as HIV infect the immune system; air-born viruses, such as H1N1 or a cold, infect the respiratory system; neurological viruses, like rabies infect the brain (the virus is usually carried to it by peripheral nerves); and viruses like polio effect the nervous system, which can create paralysis.
What is the causes of polio?
when you have polio your body has caught virals
How will attack polio virus in human body?
How does a person's body fight off polio
What human body system is affected by polio?
Polio affects the nervous system.
Is Depression an non infectious disease?
yes. depression does not infect your body. it does infect your mind though, and by doing that can also infect your spirit.
Is polio virus the smallest virus?
ssDNA circoviruses are the smallest viruses.. They infect mainly birds. They are considered to be the smallest virus that causes diseases in animals.
How does a disease infect your body?
It depends on what disease it is.
Were is polio localed in th body?
Spinal Column
What body part does bulbar polio attack?
your legs
