Disease Details
| Polio | |
|---|---|
| Disease Type | Infectious Diseases |
| Description | Is a viral infection is often characterized by acute start flaccid paralysis (polio virus occur in the digestive tract infection, and spread to neighboring lymph nodes, and in a few cases of infection transmitted to the central nervous system). Also it is known as polio as a highly contagious viral disease virus enters the human body through the mouth and multiplies in the intestine and invades the nervous system, which can cause total paralysis within hours of time, and often affects children aged under five . |
| Causes | The polio virus of the genus of intestinal viruses from patterns 1, 2 and 3 and all styles can cause paralysis . |
| Symptoms |
- Fever . - Sore throat . - Headache head - vomiting . - fatigue . - Pain or stiffness Backache . - Pain or stiffness in the neck . - Pain or stiffness in the arms or legs . - Muscle weakness . - Inflammation. |
| Treatments | There is no cure for polio, the focus in modern treatments to relieve symptoms . |
| Prevention | The disease has no cure at the present time, the only way to avoid is child immunization dose assessed polio vaccine, and in the UK is used for vaccine inactivated polio, as well as oral vaccine, given two points by mouth for a child, where they are given these doses |
| Risk Factor | This disease affects children under five years primarily |
