Polio By Samia
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
POLIO
- Polio is a viral disease that can
- Affect nerves and that can lead to partial
- Or full paralysis
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WHAT ARE THE SYPMPTOMS?
- About four to five percent
- Of the infected people have
- Minor sypmptoms such as fever
- Muscle weakness, headache, nausea
- And vomiting
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HOW CAN YOU TELL IF YOU HAVE POLIO?
- You can tell by if you have all these together
- Headaches, vomiting, fever, sore throat,
- Fatigue, back pain or stiffness, neck pain or stiffness
- Meningitis, muscle weakness....
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HOW DID PEOPLE CATCH THIS DISEASE?
- Many people think that poliovirus can always case polio
- Which can case lifelong paralysis
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HOW DID PEOPLE FIGHT THIS DISEASE?
- In the United States, children are recommended
- to receive the inactivated polio vaccine at 2 months and 4 months
- Of age and then twice more before entering elementary school.
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WHAT WERE THE CURES FOR POLIO?
- Although polio has no cure, prevention is available through
- a vaccine. In the United States, it is given as an
- inactivated polio vaccine. Approximately 90 percent or
- more of polio vaccine recipients develop protective
- antibodies to all three poliovirus types after two doses.
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