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Which disease is also known as polio?

Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis. It is a viral disease.


What type of disease is pollo?

Polio is a highly contagious viral infection. Polio can affect the spinal cord causing muscle weakness and paralysis. Polio is usually introduced through the mouth after touching stools of infected individuals.


What disease is caused by the influenza virus?

Influenza, a viral respiratory infection which is also known as the flu.


Viral infection is also known as shingles?

An infection, non bacterial,that came on suddenly


What viral infection is also known as shingles?

Varicella zoster virus which is a form of the herpes virusHerpes.Shingles.varicellaVaricellaVaricella.


What virus attacks the nervous system?

Poliomyelitis can enter the central nervous system and destroy motor neurons that can cause paralysis and muscle weakness/atrophy. Spinal polio is the most common form. Poliomyelitis is caused by poliovirus and used to be a dreadful disease in the 20th century. Now with better vaccines, the number of polio incidents have gone down.


What disease was FDR diagnosed with?

FDR was diagnosed with polio, also known as poliomyelitis.


What is the name of polio virus?

The name of the Polio Virus is simply Poliovirus. It causes Poliomyelitis, commonly know as "Polio". ----------------------------------------------------- There are three types of polio virus found .... TYPE 1 also known as BRUNHILDE & MA HONEY TYPE 2 also known as LANCING & MEFI TYPE 3 also known as LEON & SAUKETT


Who legs were paralayzed by polio?

Polio, or poliomyelitis, can lead to paralysis in individuals, particularly affecting the legs. Notable figures who experienced leg paralysis due to polio include President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who contracted the disease in 1921, and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neuron disease that caused similar symptoms. Many survivors of polio also faced varying degrees of leg paralysis as a result of the viral infection.


What are most common symptoms of viral infection?

A viral infection can include many symptoms feeling generally unwell, lethargy sometimes a high temperature, you can also have sniffles, and a congested nose.


Where can you get polio?

Polio short for Poliomyelitis. The cause for Polio is by infection with a member of the genus Enterovirus known as Poliovirus. There are vaccines to help prevent this virus. you also can be born with this disease.


What does the term 'poliomielitis' mean?

Poliomielitis, also known as polio is a viral disease in younger children and it is highly infectious. Poliomyelitis can cause paralysis in certain parts of the body and break down muscles, causing fatigue and weakness in, or throughout certain parts of the body. Polio mainly does, though, affect the brain and spinal chord.