In view of the swelling of the spinal cord that is so prominent a feature of poliomyelitis, the danger of cerebral edema (particularly in young children with infections of the nervous system ...

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors ...

But more rarely, polio can spread to your brain and spinal cord. It can cause serious symptoms: Meningitis is an infection of the membrane covering your spinal cord and brain. This can affect up ...

Polio rarely causes paralysis in infants ... the virus penetrates the central nervous system and attacks the neurons of the spinal cord and lower brain. Muscle weakness and varying degrees ...

The three major types of polio include spinal polio, a paralytic polio that attacks nerve cells in the spinal cord; bulbar polio, in which the virus attacks motor neurons in the brainstem ...

It can affect the muscles that help people breathe and sometimes cause meningitis, an infection of the spinal cord and/or the brain.[1]#1 "Polio was a disease that parents feared so much that they ...

Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio ... by person-to-person spread and mainly affects nerves in the spinal cord or brain stem. However, according to current and former US officials ...