No Cure for Polio but very Preventable

May 10, 2005

The ferocity of the disease in paralyzing human organs has no equal. The poliovirus, on entering the body, spreads quickly to the central nervous system leading to muscular paralysis within hours. Poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, infects people of all ages, but mostly children under five. More than 50 percent of the polio cases are children under three. Adult persons contract the disease without feeling pain to become carriers of the vir

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