Polio is a serious disease that spreads rapidly. In this disease, the body organs stop working after a period of time. For your information, let us tell you that children below 5 years of age are at a very high risk of this disease. India has been declared a polio-free country in the year 2014. But recently a case of polio has been found in Manipur.
After which the concern about this disease has increased across the country. For your information, let us tell you that polio vaccine is given from birth to 5 years of age. Under the polio vaccination program in India, polio doses are given at the age of 6 weeks, 10 weeks, and 14 weeks after birth. After this, booster doses are given from 9 months to 1 year. Children are given pulse polio vaccine daily till the age of 5 years. It is given to boost the immunity of children.
Actually, the number of polio patients is increasing day by day in Gaza. And this is a matter of concern for the whole world.
What is polio?
Now first of all let us know what is polio virus? Let us tell you that polio virus is an infection. It is called poliomyelitis. When polio occurs, the brain and spinal cord get damaged. There is no cure for polio till date.
Polio infection
This infection has been found in a two-year-old child in Meghalaya. This child had also been vaccinated, but still he got infected. But the question is that when the disease has been eradicated from the country, then how has the case of polio come again. Let us tell you that Professor Dr. L.H. Ghotekar of the Department of Medicine at Lady Harding Medical College says that this is not a case of normal polio but it is an incident of vaccine derived polio virus. This kind of situation occurs in case of some diseases. He said that this happens when a weak strain against the virus is added in the vaccine. At the same time, the dose of the vaccine is not effective on the virus. Due to this the child gets infected.
The initial symptoms of polio are
The initial symptoms are fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiff neck and pain in the limbs. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis (usually in the legs). 5-10% of those paralysed die when their breathing muscles become immobilised. Polio mainly affects children under 5 years of age.
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