File:Girl with leg deformity from Polio.jpg
Girl_with_leg_deformity_from_Polio.jpg (390 × 599 pixels, file size: 56 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
This child is displaying a deformity of her right lower extremity due to polio caused by the poliovirus, an enterovirus member. After initial oropharyngeal inoculation, and multiplication, the virus enters the bloodstream, thereby, finding its way to the central nervous system, and infecting the motor neurons of the anterior horn of the spinal cord and within the brain itself.
Date: 1995
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This image is a work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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| current | 23:40, 8 December 2015 | | 390 × 599 (56 KB) | Buzitis (talk | contribs) | This child is displaying a deformity of her right lower extremity due to polio caused by the poliovirus, an enterovirus member. After initial oropharyngeal inoculation, and multiplication, the virus enters the bloodstream, thereby, finding its way to t... |
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