NRS 428VN Topic 2 Assignment Epidemiology Paper - POLIO Chamberlain 2023

According to an article by CDC in 2019 on “What is Polio”, polio or poliomyelitis is a disabling life-threatening disease caused by the Polio virus. The last case of naturally occurring polio in the United States of America was in 1979. In today’s world, despite the worldwide effort to wipe out the polio virus, it continues to affect children and adults in parts of Africa and Asia (Polio disease reference guide, n.d.). Polio is a contagious viral illness that in its most severe form causes nerve injury leading to paralysis, difficulty breathing and sometimes death (Mayo Clinic, 2017). It is caused by a virus known as Polio virus. Most people who get infected by the virus will not have any visiblesymptoms (about 72 out of 100) (CDC, 2019). About 1 of 4 with the virus usually have flu-like