{"id":85367,"date":"2019-10-19T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T10:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2019-10-19T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T10:19:53","slug":"acute-flaccid-myelitisafm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/acute-flaccid-myelitisafm\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute flaccid myelitis(AFM)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently, the Acute flaccid myelitis(AFM) which is referred to as a \u2018polio-like condition\u2019 has been tested negative for the polio virus.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Acute flaccid myelitis(AFM):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a neurologic disease.It is rare but a serious disease.It affects an area of the spinal cord called gray matter.<\/li><li>The exact cause of the disease hasn\u2019t been identified but it is believed that some viruses may be behind it.<\/li><li>The symptoms of AFM includes muscle weakness, weak limbs, pain, and absent reflexes.These symptoms look much like those of polio.<\/li><li>The most serious complication of AFM is respiratory failure if the muscles involved with breathing becomes weakened.<\/li><li>Most cases of Acute flaccid myelitis(AFM) have been in children but it can also develop in adults.<\/li><li>While in the US,the incidence rate of AFM is 0.71 per million.But in India it was 120 per million population in 2010.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Polio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Polio is an acute infectious disease caused by polio virus.The virus is a human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae<\/li><li>There are three types of Polio Virus: 1,2,3-Single stranded RNA virus Natural or Wild Polio Virus (WPVS).<\/li><li>It is transmitted from one person to another by oral contact with secretions or faecal material from an infected person.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It attacks the central nervous system through the bloodstream and damage the cells and paralyse the victim.<\/li><li>India was declared polio free in 2014 and the last case was reported in January 2011.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently, the Acute flaccid myelitis(AFM) which is referred to as a \u2018polio-like condition\u2019 has been tested negative for the polio virus. Facts: About Acute flaccid myelitis(AFM): Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a neurologic disease.It is rare but a serious disease.It affects an area of the spinal cord called gray matter. The exact cause of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/acute-flaccid-myelitisafm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acute flaccid myelitis(AFM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2700,2701],"class_list":["post-85367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-acute-flacci-myelitis","tag-polio","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704614522},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}