- caused by virus
- mainly affects child below age of 5 yrs
- virus enters through mouth
- there is no cure for polio
- only prevention
- vaccines
- OPV oral polio vaccine
- IPV inactivated polio vaccine <injection>
- polio endemic countries
- Pakistan
- Afganistan
- Nigeria
- India got off the list in 2012, but India will be declared Polio free if there is no more cases for another year.
Monday, February 4, 2013
POLIO
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