How does Polio happen?
Polio is caused by bacteria. It is more common in rural places with poor sanitation for example, dirty water, or food.
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Forms of Polio: |
There are a couple forms of Polio. Asymptomatic is when the victim shows no symptoms and symptomatic is when they do show symptoms. About 95% of all Polio victims are asymptomatic, although they do not show symptoms, they can transmit the disease to others. This is especially dangerous because most Polio victims are the most vulnerable people in society with people in very poor and unclean countries. When someone does not show symptoms, they can go interact with people because they don’t know that the disease is present and they can infect someone else. Nonparalytic polio (abortive poliomyelitis) causes flu-like symptoms that last for a few days or weeks like, fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, fatigue, back and neck pain, arm and leg stiffness, muscle tenderness, muscle spasms, and meningitis. Paralytic polio will often begin to look like nonparalytic polio, but will lead to more serious symptoms like losing your muscle reflexes, severe muscle pain, muscle spasms, and loose or floppy limbs that is often worse on one side of the body.
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