Epidemic paralysis is one of the most terrible and mysterious diseases that affects people around the world at a catastrophic rate. The disease is characterized by a rapid increase in motor impairment, as well as sensory impairment, paralytic symptoms, and is often accompanied by infectious-toxic syndromes (intoxication).
Epidemic paralysis can be caused by many viruses, but in most cases the source of the pathogen is a person, often with rare forms of this pathology. Sometimes, for unknown reasons, type VI herpes viruses lead to epidemic paralysis in humans. The source of infection in viral epidemic diseases is only a patient with erased, sometimes asymptomatic forms of the disease, or a virus carrier. For the development of an epidemic disease, the patient’s immunity must be impaired,