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Polio: Dangerous virus now rare due to vaccination. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Polio is available below.
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The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
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Prevention information for Polio has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Polio.
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Acute infectious disease of humans, particularly children, caused by any of three serotypes of human poliovirus; infection is usually limited to the gastrointestinal tract and nasopharynx, and is often asymptomatic; the central nervous system, primarily the spinal cord, may be affected, leading to rapidly progressive paralysis, coarse fasciculation and hyporeflexia; motor neurons are primarily affected and encephalitis may also occur; replicates in the nervous system, and may cause significant neuronal loss, most notably in the spinal cord. - (Source - Diseases Database)
An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Polio is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Polio, or a subtype of Polio,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Polio as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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