NEW YORK CITY REPORTS THE FIRST POLIO CASE IN NEARLY A DECADE

  • 22/07/2022

According to state health officials, a young adult in New York has become the first US resident to contract polio in nearly a decade.

The unnamed Rockland County patient is no longer contagious, but has developed paralysis as a result of the virus.

According to officials, the person was unvaccinated and was most likely exposed to someone who had received a vaccine containing a weakened live virus.

The last known case of the highly contagious virus in the United States was in 2013. Once feared across the nation, the disease was largely eradicated by a national vaccination campaign that began in 1955.

Annual cases quickly fell from fewer than 100 in the 1960s to fewer than 10 in the 1970s - and the US was declared polio-free by 1979. 

Foreign travellers have brought isolated cases of polio infection into the country in the decades since.

The virus, which primarily affects children, causes muscle weakness and paralysis, as well as permanent disability and death in the most severe cases.

Americans are typically vaccinated with a three- or four-dose regimen beginning at the age of two months. According to vaccination data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 93 percent of toddlers have received at least three doses of the polio vaccine.

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