In severe cases, paralysis may result. When a person becomes infected with poliovirus, the virus begins to multiply within the cells that line the back of the throat, nose, and intestines. Symptoms of polio usually appear 7 to 14 days after a person becomes infected with the poliovirus.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis). The original name for the group in Arabic was Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham. The first three words translate to the Islamic State of Iraq while âal-Shamâ refers to Syria and the wider surrounding area.he Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). The undefined region around Syria is historically referred to as the Levant (an archaic French phrase for the âlands of the rising sunâ), including modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan.
Experts Vary on Sâs and Lâs. Islamic State in Iraq and Syria? Or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant? Everyone seems to agree that the Sunni extremists who are striving to carve out a caliphate in Syria and Iraq have upended the region, but there is no consensus on what to call the militant group, in English at least.