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What is polio and how does it affect people differently?
So, my uncle had something called polio when he was a little boy and one of his legs is all small and weird. He has trouble walking because of it and so now that he's aged a bit he is in a motorized wheelchair. I don't want to bring up touchy subjects about the illness or disease so I don't want to ask him but I am curious...
What is polio?
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Does everyone with polio have one skinny leg and one regular sized leg or was that a freak occurrence?
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Polio is a very, very serious disease. Before they had vaccines for it, it killed thousands of people a year. It's really contagious too. It's not uncommon that your uncle has a bit of disfigurement from it. Polio caused paralysis a lot.
Here are a couple of websites to find more information about it:
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Here on GoogleImages, you can see that a lot of people with it are using crutches and have some disfigurements also:
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There are vaccinations for polio now, so don't get too alarmed by the sites/pictures. It's just some information so you know what it is.
Darby(:
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