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Up to 0.5% develop paralysis of or weakness in the arms and/or legs—and up to 10% of those paralyzed die. Even people with mild infections can experience post-polio syndrome (PPS) decades later.
Poliomyelitis (/ ˌ p oʊ l i oʊ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ l aɪ t ɪ s / POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. [1] Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; [5] mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and paresthesia.
Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was created to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters. [1] [3]
Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring at about a 25–40% rate (latest data greater than 80%). They 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.
Polio can lead to severe paralysis, disability and death, the CDC notes. Siri lists litigation over "vaccine injury" as one of his specialties on his law firm's website. He did not immediately ...
A small percentage, about one in 200, of individuals who contract the polio virus suffer paralysis. A few could contract meningitis if the polio virus attacks the covering of the spinal cord or brain.
a logical sequence of cause and effect showing that the vaccination was the reason for the injury; and; a showing of a proximate temporal relationship between vaccination and injury. This ruling held that tetanus vaccine caused a particular case of optic neuritis, even though no scientific evidence supported the petitioner's claim. [29]
A lawyer advising Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Before vaccines were available in 1955, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year ...