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? Poliovirus Virus classification Group: Group IV ((+)ssRNA) Family: Picornaviridae Genus: Enterovirus Species: Poliovirus Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. The causative agent, a virus called poliovirus (PV), enters the body orally, infecting the intestinal wall. It may proceed to the blood stream and into the central nervous system causing muscle weakness and often paralysis. An ancient disease, it was first rec ...
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... Eight years before the Great Depression and two decades before the United States entered World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s mettle was tested by another crisis. In 1921, the future president l...
Source: MayoClinic
Post-Polio Syndrome Information Page ... Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS) is a condition that can strike polio survivors anywhere from 10 to 40 years after their recovery from polio. PPS is caused by the death of individual nerve terminals in the m...
Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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Resources
- El SÃndrome de la Pospoliomielitis (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS)
- Frequently Asked Questions - Post-Polio Syndrome (Post-Polio Task Force Information Center, The)
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