MICROBIO 140P Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Louis Pasteur, Ergot, Poliovirus
20 Mar 2016
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Polio: poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease. poliovirus: the virus spreads from person to person and can invade an infected person"s brain and spinal cord, causing paralysis (can"t move parts of the body). flu-like symptoms. It is very contagious and spreads through person-to-person contact. The virus lives in an infected person"s throat and intestines. It enters the body through the mouth and spreads through contact with the feces (poop) of an infected person and, though less common, through droplets from a sneeze or cough. You can get infected with poliovirus if you have feces on your hands and you touch your mouth. Also, you can get infected if you put in your mouth objects like toys that are contaminated with feces (poop). Smallpox: variola virus direct and fairly prolonged face-to-face contact is required to spread smallpox from one person to another.
