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| Virus that can cause polio-like paralysis on the rise in Canada | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 5 2014, 10:28 AM (461 Views) | |
| angora | Oct 7 2014, 02:22 AM Post #16 |
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Polio itself is making a return. I hope that scientists are delving into polio and post polio studies to see if there is anything there to help with this. A university - think it was Waterloo- recently contacted me to join in a study on survivors of polio. It is good that there is ongoing research. |
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| Trotsky | Oct 7 2014, 06:29 AM Post #17 |
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I have a friend, a couple years older than I, who is suffering post polio syndrome a half century later. |
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| Kahu | Oct 7 2014, 11:05 AM Post #18 |
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Is post polio syndrome like the post chicken pox syndrome in which you're a sitter for developing shingles in later life? There are health warnings being advertised here about getting vaccinated. Auckland, June 9th, 2014 – New Zealanders have flocked to surgeries in recent months to get the world’s first and only vaccine, ZOSTAVAX™, that helps protect against the acute and chronic pain of shingles. Shingles affects up to 1 in 3 people, who have had chickenpox, during their lives. Demand for the vaccine has been so great that manufacturer, MSDNZ, has been out of stock for a couple of weeks. A new shipment has just arrived but there is a waiting list to clear, so it’s likely the vaccine will be out of stock again for several weeks towards the end of June. Source Link Edited by Kahu, Oct 7 2014, 11:05 AM.
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| Trotsky | Oct 8 2014, 01:17 AM Post #19 |
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I don't think so. It seems current opinion points to nerves cells (neurons) whose axons (connections) were damaged or destroyed. Some people were able to partially regenerate new axons but at a great strain on the nerve which grew bigger to compensate. Over many years these exhausted nerves seem to lose their ability...post polio syndrome. So not really like varicella (chicken pox) that remains in the nerve cells for life and when immunity wanes over time (like 40 years) they can come back with a fury as herpes zoster...shingles. I was right on schedule with my shingles at 40 years after chicken pox, give or take 1 or 2. I read a little about polio during the FDR mini-series a couple weeks ago and the most astounding factoid I came up with was that 90 percent of those who contracted the virus showed no symptoms at all, and presumably developed lifelong immunity, never knowing they had polio. Only 1% suffered any paralysis. Astounding isn't it? Oh, and polio was ALMOST stamped out but is making a resurgence, guess where: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia. Gee, why do those countries all sound SO familiar? :badcold5qz But I guess if any U.S. soldiers come down with polio they can be rushed home to our major cities like Atlanta and Dallas where disease has been declared impossible. Edited by Trotsky, Oct 8 2014, 01:32 AM.
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| angora | Oct 8 2014, 02:18 AM Post #20 |
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polio isn't like the chicken pox virus. The problem with post polio occurs because the sufferer's neurons on killed off during the initial polio attack (I cant remember the exact percentage that dies) but for the rest of the sufferer's life the remaining neurons have to do the work of the dead ones. After years of this double duty they begin to wear out. Thus polio victims begin to experience weakness and even paralysis again. My uncle (a polio survivor, like myself) died completely paralysed because of this. |
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| margaret | Oct 8 2014, 02:24 AM Post #21 |
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My BIL had the post polio syndrome and after leading a fairly good life, he had polio when he was 8, he suffered very much at the last. |
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