Polio: What are the symptoms, how it is transmitted and is there any treatment? - The Telegraph

Disease was eradicated in Britain in 2003, but it is back and spreading for the first time in nearly 40 years

Along with a complete physical exam and medical history, doctors will take cultures of the throat and stool, and sometimes blood levels and cerebrospinal fluid looking for poliovirus. The virus ofte… [+2653 chars]

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