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Still not clear how this spread but most likely someone traveling overseas.
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(CNN)A polio case identified in New York last month is "just the very, very tip of the iceberg" and an indication there "must be several hundred cases in the community circulating," a senior official with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told CNN on Wednesday.
The case was found In Rockland County, which has a stunningly low polio vaccination rate. Dr. José Romero, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, noted that the majority of people with polio don't have symptoms and so can spread the virus without knowing it.
The Rockland County polio case is the first identified in the United States in nearly a decade.
The virus has also been detected in sewage in Rockland County and neighboring Orange County. The positive samples were genetically linked to the individual case, but no other cases in the US have been reported.
About 3 in 4 people infected with polio don't have symptoms, but they're still capable of spreading the virus to others, according to the CDC. Among the rest, most have symptoms such as a sore throat or headache that could easily be overlooked or confused with other illnesses. Only a relatively small number, about 1 in 200 infected people, become paralyzed. A few of those who are paralyzed die because they can't breathe.
It's spreading among the Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County. These people are historically anti-vax, but made even more so since 2020.
If you're vaccinated you don't have anything to worry about, but hopefully these people take seriously the threat they face. Vaccines eradicated this disease 40 years ago.
It's spreading among the Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County. These people are historically anti-vax, but made even more so since 2020.
If you're vaccinated you don't have anything to worry about, but hopefully these people take seriously the threat they face. Vaccines eradicated this disease 40 years ago.
Hardly anyone is effectively vaccinated. The effectiveness of the vaccinations we Boomers got as children has long since worn off.
The nation needs another round of polio vaccinations, but unfortunately it won't go as smoothly as it did when I was a kid.
Does this outbreak have anything to do with the bus loads of "migrants" being sent to the Sanctuary city of NY?
Boy that didn't take long, the infection is mostly in the orthodox community in Rockland and Orange Counties. If that was true Texas would be in big trouble.
This will be tough to stop the spread with all the anti-vaxers
Don’t care what you guys worry about today, tomorrow. Just don’t make the vaccine mandatory or try and coerce people like you did with COVID.
Except that polio can't be passed off as "just the flu."
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