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Symptoms of this non-contagious disease include joint pain, muscle weakness, and mental and physical fatigue. Up to 40% of polio survivors get PPS, which begins 15 to 40 years after infection.

I never thought about polio until 2013, when I was a medical student and my grandfather — then in his 90s — began to wither away from post-polio syndrome.

The symptoms of polio may be outlined as subclinical infection, non paralytic polio and so forth. (1-5) Subclinical infection This is seen in 95% of individuals infected with polio.

Although you don't hear much about polio nowadays, keeping the virus under control remains a top priority for infectious disease experts around the world. Polio is an infectious disease that' ...