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The critical nerves affected are the phrenic nerve (which drives the diaphragm to inflate the lungs) and those that drive the muscles needed for swallowing. By destroying these nerves, this form of polio affects breathing, making it difficult or impossible for the patient to breathe without the support of a ventilator. It can lead to paralysis ...
For roughly 80 years, she has coped with the aftermath of a polio infection, including the late effects of polio, called post-polio syndrome. She now needs a wheelchair or mobility scooter to get ...
Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring in more than 80% of polio infections. The symptoms are caused by the damaging effects of the viral infection on the nervous system and typically occur 15 to 30 years after an initial acute paralytic attack.
Poliovirus is, however, strictly a human pathogen, and does not naturally infect any other species (although chimpanzees and Old World monkeys can be experimentally infected). [40] The CD155 gene appears to have been subject to positive selection. [41] The protein has several domains of which domain D1 contains the polio virus binding site.
Polio is an infection caused by a virus that mostly affects children under 5. Most people infected with polio don’t have any symptoms, but it can cause fever, headaches, vomiting and stiffness ...
The recent New York patient was infected with vaccine-derived polio, a strain linked to live virus from an oral polio vaccine not administered in the U.S. It marks the first U.S. of vaccine ...
If the nerves lost to denervation are part of neural communication to an organ system or for a specific tissue function, alterations to or compromise of physiological functioning can occur. [1] Denervation can result from an injury or be a symptom of a disorder like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), [ 2 ] post-polio syndrome , [ 3 ] or ...
An unvaccinated NY man has polio, the first documented case in the U.S. since 2013. Here, doctors explain what polio is, its causes, symptoms, and vaccines.