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 What is it?: Polio, short for Poliomyelitis, is an infectious viral disease that causes damage to the nervous system and can even cause paralysis (loss of muscle function).

 What are the symptoms?: The symptoms of Polio are categorized into three groups; Minor Polio Symptoms, Aseptic Meningitis and Paralytic Poliomyelitis.

Minor Polio Symptoms may include, fever, sore throats, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation or other flu-like symptoms.

If you are to experience the symptoms of Aseptic Meningitis than you will first have the Minor Polio Symptoms. Then, once Aseptic Meningitis develops, you may have stiffness in the back or legs increased or abnormal sensations.

In the severe case that somebody has picked up Paralytic Poliomyelitis, they may experience fever, muscle aches, loss of reflexes and/or other "minor illness" symptoms.

Those people that develop severe Polio symptoms may have complications such as; inflammation of the heart muscle, high blood pressure, fluid in the lungs, Pneumonia or urinary tract infections.

95% of people that have been infected with Polio will have no symptoms at all. Unfortunately, they still carry the disease and can still infect other people.

 How can you get Polio?: 

 Is there is a treatment?: Unfortunately there is no cure for Polio.

 Who are Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin?: Jonas Salk was born on October the 28th 1914 in New York City and died on the 23rd June 1995. After studying immunology, he was able to develop a vaccine for Polio once a method of growing the Poliovirus was discovered. He was able to create a process using a chemical called formalin that was able to inactivate the whole virus.

Albert Sabin was born on August the 26th 1906 in Russia and he died on the 3rd March 1993. He was an American medical researcher who, in an attempt to improve Jonas Salk’s discovery, created an oral vaccine for Polio which became available in 1963. An oral vaccine is taken by mouth, as opposed to Jonas Salk’s vaccine that is injected into the bloodstream. Also different from Salk’s creation, Sabin used a ‘live’ vaccine. A ‘live’ vaccine is a virus that has been altered so that it produces a natural immunity instead of the disease.

Both of these vaccines are still used to today and have saved many lives.