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What are the symptoms of polio in a child?
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Poliomyelitis: Occurs in perhaps 1-2% of non immune people infected with one of the three aero groups of the polio virus. Most people get no symptoms or mild ones. Polio is an anterior horn cell infection that causes asymmetrical muscle weakness or paralysis with fever. If the respiratory muscles are involved, artificial means for breathing will be needed. During the 1950s, this was the iron lung.
Answered 9/28/2016
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