Poliovirus

external

• Causes

  • Faecal contamination of food

• Effects

  • Mainly motor neuropathy
  • Nerve root lesion
  • Neuromuscular hypoventilation
  • Bulbar palsy
  • Pes cavus
  • Viral meningitis

• Parents

  • Enterovirus
  • Anterior horn cell disease
  • Contagious disease

• Treatments

  • Prophylactic immunisation