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What is the most common killer sickness among the kids?
Polio
What pathogens causes polio?
Type 1 is the most common of the 3 Polioviruses that causes the Polio disease.
How do you die from polio?
Prior to the iron lung, the most common cause of death from polio was paralysis of the diaphragm muscles causing suffocation from inability to breathe.
What is the most common injury done to a victim of polio?
usually injuries are limited to paralysis.
What is the Common name for polio?
poliovirus
How many types of measles virus are there?
Type 1 or Brunhilde - most common and was most often the cause of epidemics Type 2 or Lansing - least common Type 3 or Leon All three types are included in the vaccine.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had been disabled by?
FDR was disabled by polio. A common disease that there was no cure for back then. Later on in the 1950's one man found the vaccine for polio. So, polio is no longer an issue.
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 are the types of Polio?
Type 1 or Brunhilde - most common and was most often the cause of epidemics Type 2 or Lansing - least common Type 3 or Leon All three types are included in the vaccine.
What is the medical condition polio?
Polio is a disease caused by the poliovirus. In its most severe form polio causes paralysis of the muscles of the legs, arms, and respiratory system.
What were common diseases in 1914-1918?
polio, TB, whooping cough
Why picoronavirus are the most significant cause of viral infection in human?
Picornaviruses are the family to which some of the most widespread pathogenic viruses belong. The common cold and polio are both caused by picornaviruses.
