My friend Jere of wasted limbs and an iron lung knew what polio could do: Jeff Spiess
During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...
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Medicine: New Polio
Furthermore, the seat of infantile paralysis is in the spinal cord, whereas the seat of polio-encephalitis is in the brain. Very few of the polio-encephalitis victims died. Some were only mildly ...
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Promising New Therapy Emerges for Children Affected by Acute Flaccid Myelitis
Credit: Unsplash/ Kelly Sikkema. Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare but serious neurological condition that impacts the ...
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Deadly Diseases
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 ...
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When Do Babies Get the Polio Vaccine?
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 ...
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Survivors of Childhood Polio Do Well Decades Later As They Age
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 ...