Meanings of paralytic poliomyelitis in English

The last case of paralytic poliomyelitis caused by wild poliovirus in Brazil occurred in 1989.

Viruses with one class of recombinant genomes co-circulated with the parental virus, and representatives of both caused paralytic poliomyelitis.

This study reports a type 1 poliovirus strain isolated in Brazil from a case classified as vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP).

Recently, it has been reported that intramuscular injections may also increase the likelihood of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in recipients of live attenuated poliovirus vaccines.

World Health Organisation and public health authority records show that 175 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis were imported to industrialised countries between 1975 and 1984.

At its peak in the US more than 3,000 people died in a single year from paralytic poliomyelitis, more than from any other communicable disease.