My name is Poliovirus.
I'm an Enterovirus from the family Picornaviridae.
I have 3 serotypes, mostly I give people type 1.
Most most people who get me are asymptomatic.
Then a few more get fever, vomiting, headache and sore throat.
A small proportion get my well-known paralytic polio.
I get into the spine or brain.
In spinal paralysis I affect your arms and legs.
In the brain I cause bulbar paralysis of the respiratory muscles.
Then you need an 'Iron Lung' to breath for you.
Some people spend their whole life in an Iron Lung.
this blog makes me happy :)
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