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Most cases of polio are asymptomatic, while about 1 out of every 4 people will experience flu-like symptoms, including sore throat, fever, fatigue, nausea, headache and stomach pain, which ...
Approximately 72% of people infected with Polio have no symptoms, 24% have minor symptoms which can include fever; fatigue; nausea; headache; flu-like symptoms; stiffness in the neck and back; pain in the limbs; and these often resolve completely. Fewer than 1% of cases result in permanent paralysis of the limbs (usually in the legs).
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.
Polioencephalitis is a viral infection of the brain, causing inflammation within the grey matter of the brain stem. [1] The virus has an affinity for neuronal cell bodies and has been found to affect mostly the midbrain, pons, medulla and cerebellum of most infected patients.
The flu-like symptoms may not seem too bad, but polio brings devastating complications for some. Up to 5% of polio patients develop meningitis , the inflammation of the tissues surrounding the ...
As children under 10 are now to be offered polio boosters due to signs of it returning to the UK, a look at the infection and how it might present in more detail.
A child receives oral polio vaccine during a 2002 campaign to immunize children in India. Poliovirus. Polio eradication, the goal of permanent global cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort begun in 1988, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's ...
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