Polioencephalitis Polioencephalitis Polioencephalitis is a viral infection of the brain, causing inflammation within the grey matter of the brain stem. The virus has an affinity for neuronal cell bodies and has been found to affect mostly the midbrain, pons, medulla and cerebellum of most infected patients. The infection can reach up through the thalamus and hypothalamus and possibly reach the cerebral hemispheres. The infection is caused by the poliomyelitis virus which is a single-stranded, positive sense RNA virus surrounded by a non-enveloped capsid. Humans are the only known natural hosts of this virus. The disease has been eliminated from the U.S.
If We Are the Body the following week. The song re-entered at number 37 for the chart week of September 6, 2003, In its seventh chart week, "If We Are the Body" advanced to number 24 and in its 10th chart week, it advanced to number seven. In its 12th chart week, "If We Are the Body" reached its peak position of number three on the Hot Christian Songs chart. It also peaked at number three on the "Billboard" Hot Christian AC chart and spent three weeks atop both the "Radio & Records" Christian AC and Christian CHR charts. Casting Crowns has performed "If We