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What is Polio and how does kill people?
Polio is a disease caused by a virus. It causes paralysis in the muscles. If it affects the muscles of the chest, it can prevent breathing and the individual suffocates.
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.
Which childhood disease causes infantile paralysis?
Polio is a childhood disease that causes infantile paralysis. It is a highly contagious viral infection that can lead to paralysis and can be prevented through vaccination.
Paralysis affecting many muscles?
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What called the infectious disease which often results in paralysis?
Polio
Which virus affects the muscles and causes paralysis?
Poliovirus is a virus that affects the muscles and can cause paralysis. It primarily spreads through person-to-person contact and can infect the nervous system, leading to muscle weakness or paralysis, particularly in the legs. Vaccination has led to a significant reduction in the number of polio cases globally.
What can cause Polio?
Paralysis of the limbs. In some cases, it can cause paralysis of the chest muscles making breathing difficult. It can even cause death.
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.
Does every type of polio causes to paralysis?
Not every type of polio causes paralysis. The poliovirus has three serotypes: poliovirus type 1, type 2, and type 3. While the majority of infections are asymptomatic, about 1 in 200 infections can lead to paralysis. Most cases are mild or asymptomatic, but in some instances, the virus can affect the nervous system, resulting in paralysis.
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 type of paralysis is associated with polio?
Paralysis is usually asymmetric; that is, it affects only one side of the body. The paralyzed limbs retain their ability to feel. When the muscles of respiration are affected, the patient may need to be put on a mechanical ventilator.
Why did Franklin D Roosevelt leave politics?
Polio and permanent paralysis
