MUSCAT : Poliomyelitis is a highly contagious viral disease that invades the nervous system and attacks the parts of brain that help breathing, causing neurological injury that leads to paralysis, difficulty breathing and sometimes death.

There is no cure for polio, but it can be prevented with vaccination.

Its symptoms are fever, headache, fatigue, sore throat, vomiting, stiffness or pain in the back, neck, arms or legs, it stated in a tweet on its official page.

World Polio Day highlights the global efforts to end poliomyelitis (polio) worldwide. Polio is a life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus, which the World Health Assembly committed to eradicate in 1988. The WHO European Region was declared polio-free in 2002 and has sustained this status every year since then.