Poliomyelitis, better known as Polio, has been around for thousands of years. It is an acute infectious viral disease that affects the nervous system. Usually affects the feet and causes paralysis. In most cases, the first symptoms are headache, nausea, fever, fatigue and muscle aches.
It usually spreads through contaminated food and water, and it manifests itself especially in children under the age of five. Today, a large number of children in African and South Asian countries are regarded as a direct consequence of this disease. In 1952, the United States saw 57,628 cases nationwide, making it the largest polio outbreak in the country.
Regarding the medicine, Polio can not be cured. But there is vaccination, which has become the most important vaccine given to children to avoid polio.