Polio (medically termed Poliomyelitis) is derived from Greek words Polio – meaning grey and myelon – meaning the spinal cord. The disease commonly affects the spinal cord leading to classic ...

Abnormal behaviors of autonomic function due to polio affecting the individual's nervous system can compound the inflammation around the spinal cord that causes neck and back pain. Muscle Aches ...

As polio appears again, decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., ... But in 1 in 200-2,000 people with a poliovirus infection, the virus may attack the spinal cord and brain.

Thanks to vaccines, the United States has been polio-free since 1979. ... a severe disease caused by the poliovirus which can cause paralysis or even death through infection of the spinal cord.

The mysterious and frightening “polio-like” illness, acute flaccid myelitis, lit up headlines in mid-October when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that 62 cases ...

Less than 1 percent of all polio cases are paralytic, of which there are three types – spinal cord polio; polio in the brain stem (bulbar polio); or both, which is called bulbospinal polio.

The mysterious disease that targets the spinal cord and often causes partial limb paralysis -- called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM -- has been confirmed in 90 cases spread through 27 states ...

When the 415 cases classified in Table 1 as bulbar cases were considered in relation to the presence or absence of concomitant spinal-cord involvement, 218, or 52.5 per cent, were found to be ...

Polio, also known as poliomyelitis, ... Others, about one in 25 people, may develop meningitis, which involves swelling of the membranes that cover the brain, spinal cord or both.

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

The diagnosis of acute poliomyelitis was confirmed by pathological studies, autopsies being performed in the 3 fatal cases. Histologic sections of the spinal cord and medulla revealed lesions ...

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again ...