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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.
Answered 1/7/2019
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