infantile paralysis: see poliomyelitis poliomyelitis , polio, or infantile paralysis, acute viral infection, mainly of children but also affecting older persons.
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poliomyelitis

or polio or infantile paralysis

Acute infectious viral disease that can cause flaccid paralysis of muscles. Severe epidemics killed or paralyzed many people, mostly children and young adults, until the 1960s, when Jonas Salk's injectable killed vaccine and Albert B. Sabin's oral attenuated live vaccine controlled polio in the developed world. Flulike symptoms with diarrhea may progress to back and limb pain, muscle tenderness, and stiff neck. Destruction of spinal cord motor cells causes paralysis, ranging from transient weakness to complete, permanent paralysis, in fewer than 20% of patients. Patients may lose the ability to use their limbs, to breathe, or to swallow and speak. They may need physical medicine and rehabilitation, mechanical breathing assistance, or tracheal suction to remove secretions. A “postpolio syndrome” occurs decades later in some cases, with weakness of muscles that had recovered.

infantile paralysis [′in·fən‚tīl pə′ral·ə·səs]

(medicine)

poliomyelitis

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Major medical issues will be featured in the meeting, including uprooting infantile paralysis, preventing and campaigning against smoking, fulfilling the goals of millennium development, strengthening servicing systems, road accident, strategies for preventing and controlling cancers, upgrading performance of hospitals.

Iranian Health Minister to Visit Morocco by FARS News Agency

Infantile paralysis was first documented by Jakob Heine in 1840.

Infantile Paralysis by Brenda Williams / Food/cooking/nutrition community

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Salk's efforts attracted the attention and funding from The National Foudation for Infantile Paralysis (later called the March of Dimes), which enabled him to work full time on polio.

Questioning conventional wisdom: Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine by Success

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