**what is polio?**
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease,which mostly affects young children. The virus is transmitted from people spread from one person to another or, less frequently, by a common means (e.g. contaminated food, water, objects ) and multuplies in the intestine, from where it can enter the nervous system which could cause paralysis.
Symptoms
High number of people who get infected with poliovirus about 72% of them will not have any visible symptoms.
About 25% with poliovirus infection will have flu-like symptoms that may includes the list infections below
Sore throat
Fever
Tiredness
Nausea
Headache
Stomach pain
These above mentioned infections normally last for upto 2-5days. then dissapear as time goes on. Paresthesia (feeling of pins and needles in the legs)Meningitis (infection of the covering of the spinal cord and/or brain) occurs in about 1 out of 25 people with poliovirus infection
Paralysis (can't voluntarily move some parts of the body) or weakness in
the arms, legs, or both, occurs in about 0.5% people with poliovirus infection
Paralysis is the most severe symptom associated with polio is that it can lead to permanent disability and death.
Between 2%-10%who have paralysis from poliovirus infection die because the virus affects the muscles that help them breathe. Even adolescence who have potential to be fully OK can still develop new muscle pain, weakness, or paralysis as adults, 15 to 40 years later. Remember that the word “poliomyelitis” also known as (polio) is defined as the paralytic disease. So only people with the paralytic infection are considered to have the disease.
Transmission
Poliovirus only infects humans. This particular virus lives in an infected person’s throat and intestines. It invades the body through the oesophagus and spreads through contact with the feaces (poop) of an infected victim,though less rampant,through drops from coughs or a sneeze. You can get infected with poliovirus if you have feces on your band(wristband, headband)you touch your mouth. Also, you can get infected if you put in your mouth objects(toys,gadgets etc)that are contaminated with feaces (poop).
An infected person may spread the virus to others within 1-2 weeks
Prevention
Polio vaccine protects children by preparing their bodies to fight the polio virus. Very High number of all children (99% of them) who get all the recommended doses of vaccine will be protected from polio.
There are two types of vaccine that can prevent polio:inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and oral poliovirus
vaccine (OPV)
Polio is a disease most individual read about in history books.
Do you think its still exist? Does it have a cure?
Polio still exist, although polio cases have minimized by over 99% since 1988, from an estimated more than 350,000 cases to 37 reported cases in 2016.
This decrease is the result of the global effort to eradicate the deadly disease. In the world of Today, only 3 countries in the world have never stopped transmission of polio (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria).
Despite the progress that has been achieved since 1988, as long as one child remains infected with this deadly virus, children in all countries are at very liable of contracting the disease. The poliovirus can easily be spread into a polio-free country and can spread rapidly amongst population of people that don't take immunization . If we fail to kick polio out of the world it could result in as many as 200,000 new cases every single year, within 10 years all over the world.
There is no cure for polio, it can only be prevented.
**LET'S US JOIN HANDS TOGETHER AND KICK POLIO OUT OF THE WORLD, because its damaging the future of our kids..
Thanks for reading, hope you make good use of this information. God bless everyone
