Where in the world can poliomyelitis be found?

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Also, how can it be treated, what pathogen causes the disease, and some history about poliomyelitis.
India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria are the only places where it is endemic.

There are people in developed countries who come there for treatment. But it's been a long time since polio has existed in a lot of places.

People are attempting at the moment to eradicate polio the way people did to smallpox back in 1977. All through 2010 there are going to be a lot of vaccinations of people. Poliomyelitis could become the second-ever disease to be eradicated.  (+ info)

What is the main problem in poliomyelitis?

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A 10 yr old boy had flu-like symptoms for 5 days(fever, headache,body malaise and muscle soreness). when fever subsided, he had difficulty in getting out of bed and walking.Two weeks after, the limp became more prominent which later progressed to weakness.The left leg was noted to decreased in size after 2 months. He was diagnosed to have poliomyelitis.

What is the main problem in poliomyelitis?
In poliomyelitis, are action potential generated from motor end plate?
What is the cause of muscle atrophy?
I think you need a textbook. Look it up on wikipedia too. It looks like it's polio :) The nerves are de-mylenated in some disorders, probably polio too. That means the protective cover on the nerves is destroyed, which means the body can't use the muscles attached to the nerves (no signals or poor signals) and so muscles will become smaller without use - it's what naturally happens to astronauts even.  (+ info)

Why do AIDS children be isolated from those who have had Poliomyelitis?

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AIDS children are risky of developing opportunistic infections.
Because Aids affects their immune system so they're not able to fight other infections. So they would be at risk of developing Polio.  (+ info)

Poliomyelitis, i have no clue what it is...?

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I have an assignment for biology, and im doing a disease on poliomyelitis, the thing is, i don't know anything abot it. can someone please help me. and IF possible, could they explain in french? but it doesn't have to be in french.
Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is a virally induced infectious disease which spreads via the fecal-oral route. It may proceed to the blood stream and into the central nervous system causing muscle weakness and often paralysis. An ancient disease, it was first recognized as a medical entity by Jakob Heine in 1840. Vaccination and eradication efforts led by the World Health Organization and The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International are credited with the reduction of the number of annual diagnosed cases from the hundreds of thousands to around a thousand.  (+ info)

Why poliomyelitis always triggers the lower extremities?

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Why affected individual usually experiencing slow deterioration oftheir legs?
Poliomyelitis is caused by a virus that travels toward the anterior horn of the spinal cord which is the sites for nerves that innervate yout bodily muscles. THe virus destroys these nerves (called lower motor neurons) leading to muscular paralysis and atrophy (srinking). The spinal cord has 2 enlargements, the cervical for the upper limb and the lumbar for the lower limb. The lumbar enlargement is bigger than the cervical and thus, more susceptive to viral infection. There are individuals that can get polio in the cervical enlargemens or in both sides as well. Lower motor neurons are like "life force for the muscles they innervate; with nerves, the muscles become paralyzed and shrink (called flaccid paralysis). We call that the "trophic function of nerves"!!  (+ info)

What is the poliomyelitis outbreak?

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Please help! I am 12 years old and in need of help...I have a project due on monday and i need this answer!
Do you know what Poliomyelitis is. It is commonly know as polio. It is a virus. It normally affects small children, and it used to spread very easily. It is under control now because when we are young we have immunisation needles to stop us getting the virus which stops it spreading. The virus outbreaks occur when a virus bypasses infection control measures and a high number of infections occur where no cases of polio occurred in the past. This is know as an outbreak. It generally occurs in countries where it is hard for them to get immunised.  (+ info)

Who is most at risk of contracting Poliomyelitis?

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who is the most at risk of contracting the disease polio
international travelers.

immune factors are really not very important to determine who gets clinical disease from polio. even totally healthy people can die from polio if they are exposed, although only a small minority ( <5% ) will trulyl be paralyzed or die from the infection. My point - you should not take any reassurance in being healthy - being healthy will NOT protect you from polio. Only vaccination can protect you.

The most important thing is to vaccinate travelers before they go to endemic countries.

in 200, there were only 4 countries in the world that were still polio-endemic: Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. These 4 countries have been the only endemic countries for the past 5 years or so.  (+ info)

if someone were to develop poliomyelitis, how would the virus reproduce in there body?

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THEIR  (+ info)

recovering poliomyelitis?

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In patients with poliomyelitis, motor neurons are destroyed, causing loss of muscle function and even flaccid paralysis. Sometimes recovery occurs because of the formation of axon branches from the remaining motor neurons. These branches innervate the paralyzed muscle fibers to produce motor units with many more muscle fibers than usual, resulting in the recovery of muscle function. Explain what effect this reinnervation of muscle fibers would have on the degree of muscle control in a person who has recovered from poliomyelitis.
www.ott.zynet.co.uk/polio/lincolnshire/library/grimby/muscle.html

www.pain.com/sections/professional/cme_articlefull.cfm?id=252  (+ info)

Poliomyelitis/Polio. Chromosomals Diseases!?

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Does anyone know wether
or not poliomyelitis/polio
is a chromosomal disease?
and please
if you can list ANY chromosomal diseases that you know?
thank you. :]
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