Polio appears to have been present in upstate New York's wastewater for at least a month before a patient was diagnosed in the first case of the virus in the US in nearly a decade.
The first case of polio in the US in over a decade was discovered in Rockland County, New York
‘While the Rockland County patient did not travel to either of these countries, it is possible that others in the community may have, or a visitor from outside the country brought the virus into Rockland County.’ The oral vaccine uses a weakened live virus that can potentially be shed from children who receive it. If the weakened virus circulates through under-vaccinated communities for a long enough time, it can ‘genetically revert to a version that causes paralysis’, according to the CDC.
Parents and children wait outside the Riverside Public School in Elmira, New York, on July 1, 1953, to get the polio vaccine. The US only uses the inactivated polio vaccine, which cannot spread any form of the virus Polio can take up to 30 days for symptoms to appear. During that time period, infected people can still transmit the virus to others. Symptoms of polio range from mild, flu-like to paralysis and death.
‘Poliovirus is still a threat in some countries, and it can be imported into the US and find gaps where there are pockets of under – or unvaccinated people,’ said Grusich.
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