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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.
Most cases of polio are in children under 5 years old, but experts say being vaccinated protects against the potentially fatal disease. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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 ...
The author of several crime novels and movie novelisations, Waller contracted polio as a child and read avidly during his recovery. [86] Emmett Watson: 1918–2001 Newspaper columnist based in Seattle, Washington. In 1946 Watson survived a bout with polio; he got the disease while working as a sportswriter for the Seattle Star. [87] Robert ...
Polio mostly affects children under 5 years old and can cause irreversible paralysis and even death. It is highly infectious and there is no cure; it can only be prevented by immunization ...
Polio primarily infects children under 5 and has done so around the globe for millennia. ... Polio was “the most feared disease in the world” throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...
After the U.S. recorded its first polio case since 2013 this summer, what was once perceived by many Americans as a disease of the past has become a more Polio in Children: What Parents Should ...
Polio Children is an international non-governmental organization which has fundraised over £1.3million to fund projects in India, Tanzania, South Sudan and Sierra Leone which enhance the welfare of children with poliomyelitis.