1. Poliomyelitis - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecaloral route The term derives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio

Poliomyelitis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Polio Jump to: navigation search "Polio" redirects here. For the virus, see Poliovirus Poliomyelitis Classification and external resources A man with an atrophied right leg due to poliomyelitis ICD A B ICD ... MeSH Poliomyelitis , often called polio or infantile paralysis , is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route The term derives from the Greek poliós ), meaning "grey", myelós ), referring to the " spinal cord ", and the suffix -itis , which denotes inflammation Although around 90% of polio infections cause no symptoms at all , affected individuals can exhibit a range of symptoms if the virus enters the blood stream In about 1% of cases the virus enters the central nervous system , preferentially infecting and destroying motor neurons , leading to muscle weakness and acute flaccid paralysis . Different types of paralysis may occur, depending on the nerves involved. Spinal polio is the most common form, characterized by asymmetric paralysis that most often involves the legs. Bulbar polio leads to weakness of muscles innervated by cranial nerves . Bulbospinal polio is a combination of bulbar and spinal paralysis. Poliomyelitis was first recognized as a distinct condition by Jakob Heine in 1840.

2. Famous People Who Had And Have Polio Explanation of the disease polio and resource list of famous people living and deceased who had polio in their lives http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/famous-polio.shtml

Share Tweet Home Disability Videos ... Submissions Famous People who had and have Polio Entertainment By Disabled World Explanation of the disease Polio and resource list of famous people living and deceased who had polio in their lives. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route. In fewer than 1% of cases the virus enters the central nervous system, preferentially infecting and destroying motor neurons , leading to muscle weakness and acute flaccid paralysis. Spinal polio - The most common form of paralytic poliomyelitis; it results from viral invasion of the motor neurons of the anterior horn cells, or the ventral (front) gray matter section in the spinal column, which are responsible for movement of the muscles, including those of the trunk, limbs and the intercostal muscles. Bulbar polio - Occurs when poliovirus invades and destroys nerves within the bulbar region of the brain stem. The bulbar region is a white matter pathway that connects the cerebral cortex to the brain stem. The destruction of these nerves weakens the muscles supplied by the cranial nerves, producing symptoms of encephalitis , and causes difficulty breathing, speaking and swallowing.

3. The North Central Florida Post Polio Support Group, Information About PPS, Vacci Educates and informs polio survivors, healthcare professionals and family about polio, post-polio syndrome and care in polio vaccination. http://www.postpoliosupport.com

If you live OUTSIDE the USA, Canada or Mexico, you may subscribe to the POLIO POST NEWS via our email link . We cannot emphasize enough the importance of being careful to include your CORRECT email address. Sadly, there have been requests we could not honor simply because the address was not correct and all our efforts to second guess failed. If you have requested a newsletter and have not recieved it, that could be the problem. Please get in touch with us so we can correct the error. North Central Florida Post-Polio Support Group Mirror Site (Japan) with our thanks to Shoji Nakagane for all his caring work COMING PROGRAMS Dr. Norman Anderson of the Robert Boissoneault Oncology Institute spoke on November 14th about "Alternative Medicine." Dr. Anderson tries to speak to our group every year about this time and brings us some of the most amazing "I-Didn't-know-THAT!" kind of information we have ever heard. You may have read in the newsletter how his Institute got its name; we asked him to elaborate for us and he did. As we said at the beginning of the lead article in our newsletter, "It speaks volumes about the physician.." If you have yet to read your newsletter, please do so. And don't miss the complete summary of Dr. Anderson's program in the January/February issue of the Polio Post News! Coming Saturday, December 18, 2010, at 12:30 PM

4. Polio polio is a contagious, historically devastating disease that was virtually eliminated from the Western hemisphere in the second half of the 20th century thanks to widespread http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/polio.html

5. NMAH | Polio This site explores the history of polio, the science and philanthropy behind the vaccines, the experiences of people who contracted polio and their influence on American http://americanhistory.si.edu/polio/

In the United States, polio was the most notorious disease of the 20th century until AIDS appeared. On April 12, 1955, it was announced that Jonas Salk, using March of Dimes donations from millions of people, had developed a vaccine to prevent polio. Accessibility Press Credits Privacy ... LARGE TEXT

6. Post-Polio Syndrome Information Page: National Institute Of Neurological Disorde Post-polio syndrome information page compiled by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/post_polio/post_polio.htm

Skip Navigation Search this site: Search You are here: Home Disorders A - Z Post-Polio Syndrome NINDS Post-Polio Syndrome Information Page Skip secondary menu Home Disorders A - Z Post-Polio Syndrome Information Page Publications Organizations News ... Research literature Other related groups Organizations Professional Societies Government Resources ... Microsoft Word Viewer Condensed from Post-Polio Syndrome Fact Sheet Table of Contents (click to jump to sections) What is Post-Polio Syndrome? Is there any treatment? What is the prognosis? What research is being done? ... Additional resources from MEDLINEplus What is Post-Polio Syndrome? Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a condition that affects polio survivors anywhere from 10 to 40 years after recovery from an initial paralytic attack of the poliomyelitis virus. PPS is characterized by a further weakening of muscles that were previously affected by the polio infection. Symptoms include fatigue, slowly progressive muscle weakness and, at times, a decrease in muscle size (muscular atrophy). Joint pain and increasing skeletal deformities such as scoliosis are common. Some patients experience only minor symptoms, while others develop spinal muscular atrophy, and very rarely, what appears to be, but is not, a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease. PPS is rarely life-threatening.

7. Polio Vaccine- 508 Compliant polio v polio v polio v polio v polio v accine accine accine accine accine w h a t w h a t w h a t w h a t w h a t y o u y o u y o u y o u y o u n e e d n e e d n e e d http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-ipv.pdf

8. HHMI's BioInteractive - FDR And Polio: Public Life, Private Pain Featured Infectious Disease polio. In the first decade of the new century, polio, a deadly and crippling infectious disease, may well be eradicated from the earth by immunization. http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/disease/polio/index.html

Related Stories: Still a mystery: What causes postpolio syndrome? FDR and polio: Public life, private pain Polio References Leprosy ... B. Brett Finlay, Ph.D. Featured Infectious Disease: Polio postpolio syndrome Consistent efforts to eradicate the disease, spearheaded by the World Health Organization and supported by the national immunization programs of most governments, are working very effectively. In the past 10 years, polio has declined by 90 percent. What is polio? Polio is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by polioviruses that can attack the central nervous system. The infection can be mild and almost unnoticed or severe enough to cause muscle paralysis and death. Most infected persons experience only mild symptoms, such as a sore throat, headache, fever, and intestinal upset, and recover completely. Some 10 percent of infected patients develop more serious symptoms, including a high fever, severe neck and back pain, or partial or complete paralysis. The virus attacks the motor areas of the central nervous system. By destroying the nerve cells in the spinal cord, the virus can cause muscles activated by those nerves to become paralyzed. If the virus damages nerves high up in the spinal cord, it can also affect the respiratory muscles and compromise a person's ability to breathe. The result is death by respiratory failure in 2 to 10 percent of paralytic polio cases. When did it start?

9. Greater Boston Post-Polio Association Support and selected resources for polio survivors now experiencing the effects of post-polio syndrome, plus information on several Massachusetts PPS support groups. http://gbppa.org

Welcome to the website of the Greater Boston Post-Polio Association! Rather than inundate you with a library of thousands of documents, we take a more selective approach to make it easy for you to find the most important and useful resources available. Many of the items here, such as our member-written articles, Positive Personal Solutions column and resource list originate with the GBPPA and will be found in few other places. We will be continuously adding to this site, so we hope that you'll visit often, and that you will find information here that will make coping with post-polio syndrome a little easier. Please read our Last Updated: October 15, 2010 Recent Updates and Additions 9-29-10 - corrected meeting notices Metro West Support Group Please note added meeting date! The GBPPA Metro West support group will meet on the following dates: Last meeting for 2010: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Dates for 2011: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Wednesday, October 12, 2011

10. VaccinePlace, Learn About Polio Symptoms And Immunization VaccinePlace.com offers detailed information regarding polio, including symptoms, vaccinations, and shots. http://polio.com/

For US Residents Only Home About Us Site Map Legal Notice ... Learn Search: Pertussis disease Influenza disease Meningococcal disease Rabies disease ... Patient information Welcome to polio.com! Overview Polio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th century in the United States. Polio epidemics crippled thousands of people, mostly young children, each year. Most of us don't remember how terrified parents were that polio would leave their children unable to walk or force them to spend the rest of their lives in an iron lung. Since the polio vaccines became available, the disease has more or less disappeared from the US and the Western Hemisphere. But it still occurs in some parts of the world... A single infection brought into the US by someone traveling from a country where polio still persists could possibly lead to polio epidemics again if we were not protected. That is why we continue to vaccinate. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: The Pink Book.

11. Polio | Define Polio At Dictionary.com –noun poliomyelitis. Use polio in a Sentence See images of polio Search polio on the Web Origin 1930–35, Americanism ; shortened form http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/polio?qsrc=2446

12. Post-Polio Resource Group Of SE WI Formed by polio survivors to provide information and support to them and their families and to educate the medical community and the general public about post-polio syndrome. http://www.pprg.org

Resource Articles Newsletters FAQs Meeting Schedule ... Pictures Main Menu Home Who We Are FAQs More FAQs ... Contact Information Resources Resource Articles History and Research Resources Polio and Disability Links Medical Practitioners/Support Groups Home Post-Polio Resource Group of SE WI Welcome! The Post-Polio Resource Group was founded in 1985 by a group of polio "veterans" concerned about the then newly recognized condition called Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS). Our mission is to inform and help transform the lives of polio survivors with regard to our medical, emotional, social, spiritual, and other life needs - especially as we experience the new and debilitating symptoms of PPS. What's New? Check out the latest news, announcements, and additions: = brand new = recent = recently revised The schedule for our meetings and social outings is now online. Listen to the story of Sister Kenny and the fight against polio. Follow the above link to hear a streaming program from Minnesota Public Radio. The first 22 minutes take us back to her historical impact on the treatment of polio and the beginning of the Sister Kenny Clinic Alana Wallace was named "Ms Wheelchair 2008."

13. The Disease And The Virus poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. http://www.polioeradication.org/disease.asp

14. VIS IPV Polio Vaccine polio is a disease caused by a virus . It enters a child's (or adult's) body through the mouth. Sometimes it does not cause serious illness. But sometimes it causes paralysis http://www.immunize.org/vis/ipv-00.pdf

15. SAPP Online Information on polio, post-polio syndrome, diagnosis, treatment, biographies, links to other resources, and equipment for the disabled. http://poliosask.org/

Saskatchewan Awareness of Post Polio Society Inc. Our name says it all about who we are. Now click on an icon below for information on Polio, Post-Polio Syndrome, PPS, Post-Polio Fatigue, PPS Treatments, links to worldwide support, and other interesting stuff. Thanks for visiting our site. We look forward to hearing from you with your comments. Please come again to our website for a visit. (The opinions expressed in this site are those of the writers and do not necessarily constitute an endorsement or approval by SAPP.) Click on the icon of the information you are looking for Download our September 2004 Newsletter Issue #45 Sponsored by window.open('http://us.toto.geo.yahoo.com/toto?s=76001073', '_geo_toto', 'width=515,height=125');

16. Polio: Treatment, Symptoms, Cause, Prevention, Risks, Complications, Statistics What is polio? polio, also called poliomyelitis is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by one of three related viruses. polio is a very serious disease, which can http://mamashealth.com/polio.asp

Infections Adenovirus Anthrax Avian Flu Battle the Cold ... Yellow Fever Links Email Mama Support Groups What is Polio? Polio, also called poliomyelitis is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by one of three related viruses. Polio is a very serious disease, which can lead to paralysis or even death. Once a person is exposed to polio, it usually takes about three to five days for symptoms to appear. In about 95 percent of polio cases, infection from the polio virus causes no symptoms or serious effects. In about 5 percent of cases, the polio virus manifests in a mild form (abortive polio) with flu-like symptoms, in a nonparalytic form (aseptic meningitis) or in a severe form called paralytic polio. People who have minor or nonparalytic forms recover completely. Paralytic Polio Paralytic polio is the most serious type of polio. Paralytic polio causes paralysis. In paralytic polio, the polio virus invades the central nervous system the spinal cord and the brain and may cause weakness, paralysis, serious breathing problems or death. Paralytic polio begins like milder forms of polio, however, it usually causes severe muscle pain in addition to other symptoms. Paralysis usually happens within the first week. The individual may lose the ability to use of one or both legs, arms, and may not be able to breathe without the help of a machine. Recovery varies from person to person, but people who are paralyzed by polio will have some weakness in an arm or leg for the rest of their lives.

17. Polio Perspectives - Polio Vaccine - Specific Vaccines - About Vaccines - Vaccin By Edda West. The following editorial was written as a companion piece to Neenyah Ostram’s feature article, “Will the poliovirus Eradication Program Rid the World of http://vran.org/about-vaccines/specific-vaccines/polio-vaccine/polio-perspective

Logout Home Site Map Links/Videos ... Member's Area Your Child. Your Future. Your Choice. About Vaccines Health Risks Autism Exemptions ... "Eradicators" Cause Death and Paralysis Polio Perspectives By Edda West http://www.chronicillnet.org/articles/paralyticpolio.html That the polio virus is the sole cause of polio is accepted by most people as gospel, and that the Salk and Sabin vaccines eradicated polio in the western world is etched into our collective consciousness as the major medical miracle of our time. But the history of polio and its vaccines is shrouded in a murky mist of politico/scientific manipulation, altered statistics, redefinition and reclassification of the disease, increased cases of vaccine induced paralytic polio, and monkey viruses transmitted by contaminated vaccines to millions of people worldwide. Live virus oral polio vaccine continues to be the only source of paralytic polio in North America. And the fallout continues as researchers find the imprint of SV40 virus in a wide range of cancers and tumours, even in people who were not exposed to contaminated polio vaccine. Within days of launching the Salk vaccine in the U.S. in April 1955, 79 polio cases and 11 deaths were caused by the Cutter vaccine, which was found to contain live virus. Assuming contagion patterns, the numbers were later increased to 204 cases.

18. National Polio Surveillance Project Contains polio surveillance data for India updated weekly, with information and documents on the polio Eradication Programme. http://www.npspindia.org/

India Progresses towards Polio Eradication All NPSP Users T he Global Eradication of Polio - A World Without Polio - POLIO ERADICATION IN INDIA AND THE NATIONAL POLIO SURVEILLANCE PROJECT Along with all 192 member nations of the World Health Organization, the Government of India in 1988 committed the nation to the goal of global polio eradication. Since 1995, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has been conducting intensive immunization and surveillance activities aimed at the complete elimination of poliovirus and paralytic polio. The National Polio Surveillance Project , which was launched in 1997, provides technical and logistic assistance to the GoI, and works closely with state governments and a broad array of partner agencies to achieve the goal of polio eradication in India. Photographer: Sephi Bergerson National Polio Surveillance Project, All Rights Reserved

19. Polio: Symptoms - MayoClinic.com polio — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment, prevention of this highly contagious viral disease. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/polio/DS00572/DSECTION=symptoms

20. Polio - Polio Description - Polio Symptoms - Polio Prevention - Polio Treatment Read about polio symptoms, prevention, and treatment in the polio section of the About.com Symptom Checker. http://symptomchecker.about.com/od/Diagnoses/polio.htm

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