Polio

Poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, is a highly infectious viral disease that can cause irreversible paralysis.

Polio mainly affects children under the age of five. Most infected children do not produce symptoms but can still spread the virus and cause potentially fatal cases.

Supportive therapy can be given but there is no cure for paralysis. However, polio infection is preventable with vaccination. This is essential to the global eradication of polio.