Question 1

what are the symptoms of polio?

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Flu-like symptoms of: sore throat, fever, nausea &amp; vomiting in some, but infection with any serotype of  poliovirus may not cause any symptoms in an immune-competent person. If the virus causes meningitis, add headache, stiff/sore neck &amp; back,  lethargy &amp; risk of paralysis of the legs &amp; other muscles including the diaphragm. I've seen kids die of poliomyelitis &amp; other vaccine-preventable illnesses. I may see it again.

Question 2

how come polio is so dangerous?

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Severe complications: Because it can cause paralysis or death.

Question 3

what is the morphology of polio?

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Polio: The polio virus has a capsid morphology that is non enveloped icosahedral symmetry. The genome is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA genome.

Question 4

what kind of disease is polio disease?

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Flu-like symptoms of: sore throat, fever, nausea &amp; vomiting in some, but infection with any serotype of  poliovirus may not cause any symptoms in an immune-competent person. If the virus causes meningitis, add headache, stiff/sore neck &amp; back,  lethargy &amp; risk of paralysis of the legs &amp; other muscles including the diaphragm. I've seen kids die of poliomyelitis &amp; other vaccine-preventable illnesses. I may see it again.

Question 5

why has polio not been eradicated 100%?

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Incomplete vaccinati: Incomplete vaccination coverage of children in some countries results in ongoing transmission.

Question 6

what is the classification for polio (poliomyelitis)?

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Viral infection: Polio is essentially nonexistent in most of the world, but persists in Iran.  It was a viral infection affecting children during mainly warmer weather.  It predominantly attacked motor nerve cells in spinal cord, and in some cases afflicted breathing, requiring an "iron lung".  The Salk and Sabin vaccines stopped the disease COLD!!!

Question 7

can strep cause polio?

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Not known to science: As far as i can tell, there is no relationship between strep and polio--strep is an infection caused by bacteria which can affect heart (rheumatic fever), but has been shown to cause "polio-syndrome"
polio syndrome is caused by poliovirus which infects/affects the spinal cord with damage resulting in neurologic deficit. America was declared as natural polio-free in 1994. Have fun learning.

Question 8

who gets post polio syndrome?

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Former polio victims: This is a condition  in which muscles, weakened by previous exposure to polio, later in life have the muscles affected gradually weaken  reproducing some of the origin dysfunction.  It should gradually disappear as the polio is eliminated by public health measures.  This make take a little while since it has gotten caught up in pakistani politics causing stoppage of immunization.

Question 9

does polio affect your life span?

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Probably not: If you suffered polio as a child, and now it is almost nonexistent in the USA, it may have resulted in some weakness and atrophy but will not affect lifespan.  An acute case could cause death due to breathing issues, but with modern respirators, most can survive.

Question 10

what causes "post-polio syndrome"?

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Polio + aging: Post-polio syndrome results in spinal motor neurons (those that supply voluntary muscles) which were affected often decades earlier by polio virus to degenerate & stop functioning normally. Theory is that the neuron is weakened & now succumbing to continuing muscle use which overtaxes the neuron metabolism. Reduced activity is the only remedy but won't reverse damage already done.

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