Polio is back, in Rockland county in northern New York.
Detected in the water supply, and one or two people have been paralyzed. For every person who is paralyzed, one hundred are most likely infected.
They may have had mild flu like symptoms, such as sore throat and body aches. This is spread through swimming pools, or through the GI tract if ingested.
If someone received the live oral vaccine overseas, and came back to the United States, they most likely infected someone who was not vaccinated.
Vaccinations in the USA stopped in 1979 for young school age children...because we thought polio had been defeated.
They may have had mild flu like symptoms, such as sore throat and body aches. This is spread through swimming pools, or through the GI tract if ingested.
If someone received the live oral vaccine overseas, and came back to the United States, they most likely infected someone who was not vaccinated.
Vaccinations in the USA stopped in 1979 for young school age children...because we thought polio had been defeated.
