Polio

PPS affects between 25 and 40 out of every 100 polio survivors. World Polio Day 24 October One Day One Focus Ending Polio.

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Initial symptoms of polio include fever fatigue headache vomiting stiffness in the neck and pain in the limbs.

. When I discovered how close we were to eradicating polio I was very motivated to be a part of this movement. Among those paralysed 5 to 10 die when their breathing muscles become immobilized. Unlike poliovirus PPS is not contagious.

Polio has been eliminated from the United States thanks to widespread polio vaccination in this country. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments with six core partners - the World Health Organization WHO Rotary International the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC the United Nations Childrens Fund UNICEF the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi the Vaccine Alliance. CDC recommends that children get four doses of polio vaccine.

Post-polio syndrome PPS is a condition that can affect polio survivors decades after they recover from their initial poliovirus infection. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis. While there is no cure for polio it can be prevented by vaccination.

I am from a generation who has witnessed the devastating effects of polio. It is given by shot in the arm or leg depending on the persons age. Inactivated polio vaccine IPV is the only polio vaccine that has been given in the United States since 2000.

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