We describe five patients with previous poliomyelitis who developed multiple sclerosis (two laboratory supported definite and three clinically definite). The initial symptoms of functional deterioration developed a mean of 30 years following poliomyelitis. Initial functional deterioration was due to progressive limb weakness or impaired mobility and in three cases this led to an initial diagnos...

Vaccination has been used for the prevention and eradication of communicable diseases such as smallpox, polio, measles. Herd immunity threshold have already conceptualized outbreaks pandemicity these diseases. Coronavirus infectious disease-19 (COVID-19) is second pandemic coronavirus disease 21st century. conducted since December 2020 in an attempt to control pandemic. The morbidity incidence ...

AIM Describe polio patients visiting a polio clinic in Sweden, a country where vaccination was introduced in 1957. DESIGN A consecutive cohort study. PATIENTS Prior polio patients. METHODS All patients (n = 865) visiting the polio clinic at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg Sweden, between 1994 and 2012 were included in this study. Data at first visit regarding patient character...

continued, page 3 There are large numbers of polio survivors today who contracted acute paralytic poliomyelitis prior to the advent of widespread vaccination programs against poliovirus (PV). What is underappreciated is the fact that polio survivors are many years later at risk of developing new neurological deterioration, a condition recognized in the late ’80s as post-poliomyelitis syndrome (...

poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease, which mainly affects young children. the virus is transmitted by person-to-person spread mainly through the faecal-oral route or, less frequently, by a common vehicle (e.g. contaminated water or food) and multiplies in the intestine, from where it can invade the nervous system and can cause paralysis. initial symptoms of polio include ...