Scientists Achieve New Success in Fighting Polio: WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement says that scientists in the USA have recorded a new success in fighting polio after decades of intensifying research.

They found effective drugs that destroy the second type of the virus that caused the disease.

It is worth mentioning that there three types of viruses cause polio.

So there will be one strand that still exists so far.

If scientists find drugs to fight the third strand which is known as WBV3, polio will disappear of the world at all.

It will be the third time that world sees disappearing of viruses that hit humans.

Smallpox disappeared in 1980 and the second type of polio ended in 2015.

Polio infects people suffer from disorders in immunity system and undernourishment.

The virus that causes polio attacks the central nervous system and destroys the muscular fibers in either upper or lower limbs. Symptoms of the disease appears within hours only of the infection.

Until now there is no decisive cure of polio but patients can be safe if they get effective vaccines.

People infected with polio dwindled sharply in the recent years due to intensified campaigns of vaccinating babies and children across the  world.

The last case of infection with polio was spotted in north of Nigeria in 2012.

Since then, officials of WHO have followed up the virus causes infection of the second type of polio to reassure of disappearing it absolutely.

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Both Pakistan and Afghanistan record the highest rates of polio in the world nowadays.

However, many obstacles aborted efforts of fighting polio in the last two years.

Polio, short for poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

In about 0.5 percent of cases, there is muscle weakness resulting into movement inability.

The weakness most often involves the legs but may less commonly involve the muscles of the head, neck and diaphragm.

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Many people fully recover.

Those with muscle weakness, about 2 to 5 percent of children and 15 to 30 percent of adults die.

Another 25 percent experience minor symptoms such as fever and a sore throat and up to 5 percent have headache, neck stiffness and pains in the arms and legs.