Polio
What is Polio?
Polio is a disease. It is caused by virus. It is mainly effects nerves in the spinal cord or brain stem. Polio effected person is unable to move certain limbs. Which is called paralysis? Polio highly affects those children which are under 5 years old. Polio is genetically spreading person to persons. Polio is discovered in accient limes but it was in written from in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first clinical description is given by an English physician Michael underwood, in 1789. He referred to polio as “disability of the lower extremities”
What are types of Polio?
There are three types of Polio.
Virus, which are called:
Wild polio virus type 1 (WPV 1)
Wild polio virus type 2 (WPV 2)
Wild polio virus type 3 (WPV 3)
Wild polio virus type 2 or 3 no longer exit but wild polio virus type exists in a few parts of the world. Type 1 polio virus is causing paralysis in this type any part of the body s paralysis. Type 1 Polio virus is not completely finished.
Symptoms
If someone is affected by polio virus these symptoms are shown:
Fever, falling, headache, vomiting, pain in the limbs and stiffness of the neck. Polio virus symptoms appear between 3 to 21 days after infection. Many people with polio virus infection have no symptoms or mild symptoms, even may not know as they are affected. But some people become paralyzed. (25 out of 100) Polio virus affected people have these symptoms, nausea, headache, stomach pain; these symptoms are mostly found in adults.
Causes:
Polio is caused by 1 of 3 types of polio virus. It is caused of poor hand washing and it can also cause of eating and drinking unhealthy.