1. What is polio?
Poliomyelitis (Polio), commonly known as polio, is an acute infectious disease caused by the intrusion of a virus into the circulatory system, which was later called poliovirus. Most of the patients are children aged one to six years, and the main symptoms are fever, general malaise, severe limb pain, and paralysis.
Second, what are the symptoms of polio?
1. Its symptoms are the same as cold fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, sore throat, sneezing, so it is not easy to be found, nor is it easy to be found by doctors. Poliovirus infection is rarely diagnosed in the early stages, and it is basically treated with a cold, so its missed diagnosis rate is very large.
2 It is easy to identify the symptoms of limbs after a few weeks or even half a year, such as leg paralysis, inability to move the legs, thinning of the legs, and waste atrophy.
The most commonly seen quadriceps muscle is completely paralyzed, and the patient walks on his or her legs as an adult.
Three, a sugar pill
He developed two live vaccines, liquid and sugar pills, that saved hundreds of thousands of children from disability; he once tried drugs himself, even making his son, who was under 1 year old, drink the vaccine. He has brought health to generations of Chinese, but he says that he has only made a small sugar pill in his life. Today (15 December), World Fortified Immunization Day, a festival set up for the eradication of polio, remembers "Sugar Pill Grandpa" Gu Fangzhou!