Polio

Polio By: Calen, Zack

Resources/Key Vocab

1.CDC

2.WHO

3.NFID

Signs/Symptoms

Sore throat, fever, tiredness, nausea, headache, stomach pain.

Symptoms usually last 2-5 days

1 out of 4 people that are infected with polio will have flu-like symptoms.

1. Paresthesia

2. Meningitis

3. Paralistic

4. Nonparalistic

5. Flaccid Paralusis

6. Muscle Atrophy

7. Ventilators

8. Dipheria

9. Asymptomatic

Definition

Contagious viral illness causes paralysis, difficult breathing, and sometimes death.

Prevention

Children get a polio vaccine to prepare their bodies to fight the virus.

Causes/Transmission

Treatment

Very contagious and spreads through person-to-person contact. Lives in a infected persons throat and intestines. Spreads through feces.

The vaccines are (IPV) inactivated poliovirus vaccine and (OPV) oral poliovirus vaccine.