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.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Yes, it's a contagious disease and not everyone who contracted the disease had what we think of as classic Polio type symptoms. Not having those symptoms didn't mean they completely escaped. Some authorities attribute chronic fatigue syndrome to Post Polio for those who had Polio and didn't know it.

4meAndyou · F

@Heartlander I didn't know that it could be asymptomatic...😢. My great Aunt had it. Spent half her life in a wheelchair.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@4meAndyou yes. The vast majority may have been asymptomatic but still did damage to the nervous system that manifested years later.

Here's a good read for all of us who lived through that era: