{"id":63236,"date":"2022-07-24T01:12:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/polio-reappears-confirm-the-first-case-in-almost-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2022-07-30T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:16:43","slug":"polio-reappears-confirm-the-first-case-in-almost-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/polio-reappears-confirm-the-first-case-in-almost-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio reappears; confirm the first case in almost a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On July 21, New York State Public Health officials reported a case of polio, better known as “polio,” the first detected in the United States in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n

According to reports from the State Department of Health, the case was recorded in Rockland County, New York. The infected person is a young unvaccinated man, who presented symptoms of the disease a month ago and developed paralysis.<\/p>\n

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The disease would have been transmitted to him by another adult, who was immunized with a live vaccine, orally, a method that has not been used in the United States since 2000. Therefore, the Public Health authorities suspect that this person contracted the virus. outside the country:<\/p>\n

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It appears that the person had a vaccine-derived strain of the virus, perhaps from someone who received a live vaccine, available in other countries but not in the US, and spread it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"poliovirus\"<\/p>\n

In addition, the authorities reported that the patient has not traveled outside the country recently and is no longer considered contagious. However, how the infection occurred and whether other people may have been exposed to the virus is being investigated.<\/p>\n

Health officials asked doctors to remain vigilant for possible new cases and urged Rockland County residents who are not vaccinated to do so.<\/p>\n

\"polio<\/p>\n

Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious, disabling and life-threatening viral disease that primarily affects children under five years of age. It is spread through the feces or secretions from the nose and throat of an infected person. Poliovirus can also be contracted by drinking water or eating food contaminated with fecal matter.<\/p>\n

There is no cure for polio. However, vaccination can protect against the disease. Cases are down 99 percent since 1988, when polio was endemic in 125 countries and 350,000 cases were reported worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"Polio<\/p>\n

In the particular case of the United States, due to vaccination, contagions decreased drastically in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The last natural infection recorded in the territory dates back to 1979. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, the last known case of polio in the United States was in 2013.<\/p>\n

Although it has been eradicated from most countries, the wild version of the poliovirus currently exists only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the oral vaccine, which contains small amounts of weakened but live polio, continues to cause occasional outbreaks elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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Last June, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that a type of vaccine-derived poliovirus had been detected in sewage samples in London. However, no cases of poliomyelitis were reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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