Over the past couple of years some interesting and exciting discoveries have been made about the polio virus that were unknown before. And it is likely that advances in the fields of biotechnology and immunochemistry derived directly or indirectly from work on AIDS gave the tools to make these surprising findings. A study from France reports that of 10 people with Post-Polio Syndrome, five of them also had antibodies present for these mutated virus fragments and five of them did not. That may be in the future. Many of us had this procedure done at the time of onset of the polio virus to help in diagnosing it.
Spinal taps can be very painful and lead to serious complications.
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