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Acute poliomyelitis (polio) is caused by poliovirus, a small (RNA) virus from the family of viruses called picornaviridae, it’s an enterovirus. If a swimming pool, or other body of water is contaminated with it (which is extremely uncommon in industrialized parts of the world), then drinking the contaminated water can infect you.
