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poliovirus invades the nerve cells of the spinal cord and kills the motor neurons. When the motor neurons are destroyed, the muscles they connect to become damaged and weaken. The result is varying degrees of paralysis, including difficulty swallowing

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It is because of polio affects the nervous tissues and affects the nerve cells of the spinal cord and affects the functioning of involuntary muscles..

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because it blocks the energy of the nerve

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infecting and destroying motor neurons

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What called the infectious disease which often results in paralysis?

Polio


What can cause Polio?

Paralysis of the limbs. In some cases, it can cause paralysis of the chest muscles making breathing difficult. It can even cause death.


How do you die from polio?

Prior to the iron lung, the most common cause of death from polio was paralysis of the diaphragm muscles causing suffocation from inability to breathe.


What virus attacks the nervous system?

Poliomyelitis can enter the central nervous system and destroy motor neurons that can cause paralysis and muscle weakness/atrophy. Spinal polio is the most common form. Poliomyelitis is caused by poliovirus and used to be a dreadful disease in the 20th century. Now with better vaccines, the number of polio incidents have gone down.


Why did Franklin D Roosevelt leave politics?

Polio and permanent paralysis


What disease can cause paralysis?

Polio myelitis.


What is polio also called?

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Why polio is called crippling disease?

There are more than one type of polio. The one that most people fear the most is the one which causes paralysis. I think that would be the definition of a crippling disease.