Polio

Poliomyelitis is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by three types of poliovirus. The poliovirus is a virus most recognized for its destruction to the nervous system causing paralysis.
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Poliovirus: A member of the enterovirus subgroup, family Picornaviridae. Enteroviruses are transient inhabitants of the gastrointestinal tract. Picornaviruses are small viruses with an RNA genome. There are three strains of poliovirus.
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Poliomyelitis
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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Poliomyelitis - polio, or infantile paralysis, acute viral infection, mainly of children but also affecting older persons. There are three immunologic types of poliomyelitis virus; exposure to one type...
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The polio vaccine today
Currently, most children in the United States receive four doses of IPV at the following ages:
2 months
4 months
Between 6 and 18 months
A booster shot, between 4 and 6 years of age when children are just entering school ...
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Poliomyelitis is a communicable disease caused by viral infection and occurs through direct contact with infected secretions. Polio is found worldwide, but immunization has reduced the incidence.
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Polio is a highly contagious infection caused by the poliovirus. In a small percentage of infected people, the virus attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, ...
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Polio mainly affects people who have not been immunised. Many parts of the world are now polio-free following successful immunisation programmes and immunisation is an effective way of preventing polio infection.
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The polio vaccine is included in the injection and so will not need to be given separately by mouth.
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poliomyelitis
An acute, infectious disease that attacks the central nervous system. Sometimes causes paralysis that can result in permanent deformities. Vaccines are available. Also called polio.
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POLIO (Poliomyelitis, Infantile Paralysis)
SYMPTOMS"Fever, nausea, diarrhea, headache, and irritability.
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- Polio Vaccine.
Polio vaccine should be given at two, four, and six to eighteen months, with a final dose before starting school.
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The polio vaccine protects against polio which still occurs in some parts of the world. The vaccine is recommended as part of the childhood immunisation schedule. This article profiles the vaccine and its rare side effects.
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Some lots of polio vaccines in the 1960s were discovered to contain SV40. It was found in the inactivated (Salk) polio vaccine and some experimental lots of oral (Sabin) polio vaccine.
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Salk vaccine (Poliovirus Vaccine Inactivated)
Salmeterol (Serevent Diskus; Serevent; Serevent Diskhaler)
Salmeterol
(Inhalation)
(Serevent Diskus)
Salmeterol/Fluticasone
(Inhalation) ...
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Polio (inactivated poliovirus vaccine, or IPV).
Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR).
Chickenpox (varicella).
Hepatitis B (Hep B).
Hepatitis A (Hep A), in some areas of the United States.
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib).
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For years people have been receiving vaccines to fight infectious diseases that were once thought of as killers, such as polio. A vaccine is something that gets the immune system to respond by making antibodies to fight the foreign invader.
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(1) 'postinfectious neuromyasthenia', going back to an atypical 'poliomyelitis' epidemic in 1934; (2) 'chronic Epstein-Barr virus' infection, ...
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Vaccinations are an effective method of preventing certain disease such as polio, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, influenza, hepatitis b, and pneumococcal infections.
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The list of infectious diseases goes on--diphtheria, listeriosis, botulism, gas gangrene, actinomycosis, dysentery, cholera, poliomyelitis, Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, malaria, giardiasis, trichinosis, hookworm--but, happily, ...
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Children who take immunosuppressive medication to treat an autoimmune disease or to prevent rejection of a transplanted kidney, however, should not receive vaccines containing live viruses, that is, the oral polio vaccine, the measles, mumps, ...
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Stroke
Parkinson´s disease
Huntington´s disease
Multiple sclerosis
ALS (Lou Gehrig´s disease)
Myasthenia gravis
Muscular dystrophy
Infections, such as polio and syphilis
Polymyositis ...
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