effects
Headaches, sore throats, neck stiffness, paralysis, or paresthesia
What are symptoms of polio?
The thing that protects people from getting polio nowadays
What is the polio vaccine?
The only animal that gets polio
What are humans?
The disease that Peg Kehret suffered from
What is polio?
The effect that polio had on Peg Kehret that made her unable to move
What is paralysis?
How long polio has existed
What are thousands of years?
The name of the virus that causes polio
What is poliovirus?
The reason why Peg couldn't have visitors
What is risk of spreading the disease?
When someone has no symptoms (of polio or any disease)
What is asymptomatic?
What is ancient art?
The infectiousness level of polio (low, high, or medium)
What is high infectiousness?
The reason why Peg had to keep her feet flat against a board at the foot of her bed in the hospital
What is dropfoot?
When someone feels like their skin is prickling, chilling, burning, or numbing
What is paresthesia?
The age group more likely to have really bad symptoms from polio
What are adults?
One way polio can be spread
What are macaroni and cheese, green beans, Waldorf salad, and cream puffs?
The percentage of people who experience no effects from polio
What is 70%?
The time periods when there were major polio outbreaks
What are the 1800s and 1900s?
How long someone with polio can spread the disease to other people
What is six weeks?
Peg's official diagnosis the first day at Sheltering Arms
What is acute anterior poliomyelitis?