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Polio: Introduction

Polio: Dangerous virus now rare due to vaccination. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Polio is available below.

Symptoms of Polio

• Phase 1: Mild case symptoms occur in most cases:
  • Mild fever
  • Headache
  • Sore throat
  • Vomiting
• more symptoms...»

See full list of 22 symptoms of Polio

Polio: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Polio:

• Meningitis - the infection that may result in paralysis.
• Paralytic poliomyelitis - the name for polio when it progresses to cause paralysis.
• Respiratory paralysis
• Permanent muscle weakness (see Muscle weakness)
• Permanent paralysis
• Permanent nerve damage (see Nerve symptoms)
• Permanent spinal cord damage
• more complications...»

Disease Topics Related To Polio

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Polio:

• Poliomyelitis
• Flaccid paralysis
• Nonparalytic poliomyelitis
• Paralytic poliomyelitis
• Wild-type poliovirus
• more related diseases...»

Medical Textbooks Online about Polio

Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Wrongly Diagnosed with Polio?

• Misdiagnosis of Polio
• Failure to diagnose Polio
• Hidden causes of Polio (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Polio

Causes of Polio

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Treatments for Polio

• Symptomatic treatments - for mild cases
• Physiotherapy - for muscles
• Tube feeding - for difficulty swallowing
• Mechanical respiration - for respiratory paralysis
• more treatments...»

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News Archives for Polio

Medical news articles related to Polio include:

• One in 50 Americans Lives With Paralysis
• Technology Takes a Step Toward Treating Paralysis
• more health news...»

Source: HealthDay News

Videos for Polio

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Patient Surveys for Polio

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Prognosis for Polio

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Reseach about Polio

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Clinical Trials for Polio

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Polio include:

• Immunogenicity and Safety of Imovax Polio in Chinese Infants Compared to Local OPV - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Study of "Post-Polio Syndrome" - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Immunogenicity and Safety of Pentaxim in South African Infants - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Immunogenicity and Safety of Sanofi Pasteur Pentaxim Combined Vaccine in Infants in Thailand - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Safety of Imovax Polio in Chinese Infants and Children - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• more trials...»

See full list of 38 Clinical Trials for Polio

Prevention of Polio

Prevention information for Polio has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Polio.

• Oral polio vaccinations (OPV)
• OPV-Sabin vaccine
• more preventions...»

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Statistics for Polio

• Medical statistics for Polio
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Polio
• Death and Mortality statistics for Polio
• Society statistics for Polio

Polio: Broader Related Topics

• Viral diseases
• Vaccine-preventable diseases
• Diseases contagious from food
• Diseases contagious from contaminated water
• Diseases contagious from saliva
• more types...»

Types of Polio

Types of Polio

• Paralytic poliomyelitis
• Vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP)
• more types...»

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Definitions of Polio:

Acute infectious disease of humans, particularly children, caused by any of three serotypes of human poliovirus; infection is usually limited to the gastrointestinal tract and nasopharynx, and is often asymptomatic; the central nervous system, primarily the spinal cord, may be affected, leading to rapidly progressive paralysis, coarse fasciculation and hyporeflexia; motor neurons are primarily affected and encephalitis may also occur; replicates in the nervous system, and may cause significant neuronal loss, most notably in the spinal cord. - (Source - Diseases Database)

An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Polio is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Polio, or a subtype of Polio, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Polio as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet

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