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Polio: Currently, this concern has gained prominence in the health area, due to the large number of vaccination reductions.

We know that the polio, or polio is also known as Infantile Paralysis.

In this sense, it is a serious infectious disease caused by the poly virus, of the Enterovirus genus, from the Picornaviridae family.

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So, when a person contracts this poly virus, he can develop the disease or not.

With this, it is estimated that every 200 people infected, only one develops some type of illness, affecting the muscular part, and lower limbs of the body in more aggravating cases.

This transmission takes place via fecal-oral (i.e., contaminated water, contact with feces of someone who already has the disease), or oral-oral (i.e., through droplets in the air).

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This disease unfortunately can be fatal in rare cases, but this hypothesis cannot be ruled out.

THE polio It often causes a variety of symptoms.

For example, fever, headache, body aches, diarrhea, muscle spasms, body stiffness (mainly the back of the neck) and vomiting.

However, in Brazil, this disease had already come to an end, as the last case was confirmed in 1989, data reported by the Paraná Health Department.

To reach this result, it took numerous types of vaccination campaigns, thus, containing the advance of this disease.

The immunizer is recommended to be applied to children up to five years old, with the Brazilian vaccination plan containing three doses of the injectable vaccine at two months, four and six months of the child's life.
In addition, two more booster doses with oral vaccine in correct sequence, better known as "droplet".

However, this disease has returned to haunt children, due to the lack of adherence to these vaccines against polio.


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