Source+7

"Polio and Prevention." //Polio and Prevention //. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Sept. 2012. .
 * 1) No cure, only safe and effective vaccines. The only way to get rid of it for good would be to vaccinate everyone until its gone forever.
 * 2) Highly infectious, caused by a virus, and can cause paralysis in a matter of hours.
 * 3) Usually affects children under the age of five years.
 * 4) Spread through physical contact, virus enters mouth and multiplies in intestines. It then sheds into the environment through feces and spreads.
 * 5) Flies are proven to spread the disease from poop to foods.
 * 6) Most with the disease show no signs of symptoms, so they don't even know they have it. Unknowingly spreading the disease.
 * 7) Though most don't experience symptoms, some experience fever, fatigue, vomiting, stiffess of the neck, and pain in the limbs.
 * 8) Irreversable paralysis is caused when the virus travels into the bloodstream and enters the central nervous system.
 * 9) When it gets there, it multiplies and destroys cells that activate muscles.
 * 10) These muscles are now floppy and lifeless, unable to be used correctly.
 * 11) The disease is irreversible, there is no cure, the only thing that can be done is something to relieve the symptoms.
 * 12) Heat and drugs are used to stimulate and relax the muscles, respectively.
 * 13) Bulbar polio is when the the paralysis spreads to the thorax and abdomen.
 * 14) 5-10% die at this stage when their breathing muscles become immobalized.
 * 15) 1940-1950, people with polio were placed in an iron lung, a large cylinder that they lay in to regulate breathing.