How does Polio infect the body?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Usually the poliovirus enters the human body via inhalation into the respiratory tract.

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Polio 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.

Answer 3

Contact with the feces of an infected person. Droplets from a sneeze or cough of an infected person (less common)

Answer 4

Acutely it attacks the gastrointestinal system and causes diarrhea.

What it is famous for is the paralysis from attacking the nervous system.

Answer 5

in the legs in the spine

Answer 6

throat