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A Research Study On Poliomyelitis

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David Caballero
December 1, 2014
Pre-AP English 1
Ms. Cooper

Poliomyelitis has been around for a long time but the first clinical description of the disease was in 1789, by an English physician named Michael Underwood. The death-to-case ratio is 2%-5% in children and 15%-30% for adults. Even though the number of deaths of Polio have come to a screeching halt 3,145 people died in 1952 due to the worst outbreak in the United States’s history. Poliomyelitis poses a minimal yet dangerous threat to humanity. Researchers and scientists have been largely successful in finding a cure for this disease. Looking to the future, the biggest concern is the eradication of this disease to be slowed. The effects of this disease are very harmful but are not easily transmitted. There are three different types of infections which include subclinical, nonparalytic, and paralytic. Patients with subclinical polio may not have any symptoms or have mild symptoms that may last 72 hours or less. A few symptoms that can result in the subclinical polio infection can be general discomfort or uneasiness, headache and slight fever, or red throat, slight throat, and lastly vomiting. (NIH). Then patients who have managed to contract nonparalytic polio will not become paralyzed if they are infected with it. Some symptoms can be fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, meningitis, and fatigue. While it may vary a few more serious symptoms can be back pain or stiffness, neck pain or stiffness, pain or

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