Polio Research Paper

A disease that can cause someone to become crippled and unable to move. As well lead to becoming a harmful and fatal virus to young children under the age of five. The significance of this paper is to inform people of what this disease can do to a person, and what it has done over time. Thanks to World Health Organization and the College of Physicians. For their websites that have provided me with information. Also, for Peg Kehret and Martha Sherwood-Pike for their writings. And to Karla Iverson’s information about the past. Polio, or poliomyelitis, is an uncommon but yet, deadly disease in the United States. It made a huge impact on the United States history, as well as in the world’s too. To know about the past polio has created. We need to discuss what it

The definition of polio, to me, is a highly infectious disease that attacks the nervous systems, the musculoskeletal system and the limbs. The definition by WHO, is a highly infectious disease that is caused by a virus. The virus invades the nervous system, and can be passed on by spreading through faecal-oral routes or by vehicles. It can cause a person with the disease to become paralyzed in a matter of hours of catching it. About 1 in 200 infections can lead to irreversible paralysis, and five to ten percents will die. Those ten percent won't be able to breath since their breathing muscles won't be able to function (WHO). The poliomyelitis' base root name came from a Greek word, meaning of gray and morrow (CPP). Or also meaning, the inflammation of gray matter (Iverson). Poliomyelitis is known as infantile paralysis or polio for short. Polio is a contagious disease that can live outside the human body for two months at a time. There are no guarantees of how long the virus can survive without a host. But, the virus can live in different climates zones year-round (Iverson). It is both, a temporary and permanent disease. The virus can cause permanent damage