Infantile Paralysis

Alternate Names
: Infantile Paralysis, Polio
Definition
Poliomyelitis is a disorder caused by a viral infection (poliovirus) that can affect the whole body, including muscles and nerves. Severe cases may cause permanent paralysis or death.
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Polio; Infantile paralysis
Symptoms:
There are three basic patterns of polio infection: subclinical infections, nonparalytic, and paralytic. Approximately 95% of these are subclinical infections, which may go unnoticed.
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Infantile Paralysis (Poliomyelitis)
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(p´´lm´´l´ts), polio, or infantile paralysis, acute viral infection, mainly of children but also affecting older persons.
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POLIO (Poliomyelitis, Infantile Paralysis)
SYMPTOMS"Fever, nausea, diarrhea, headache, and irritability.
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During the first half of the 20th century, no illness inspired more dread and outright panic than did polio, sometimes called infantile paralysis, which struck the nation every summer and fall with increasingly virulent epidemics.
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) had polio and worked with the National Foundation/March of Dimes to raise money to combat this once-fearsome scourge. Polio(myelitis) is also called infantile paralysis.
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