Polio

Health officials on July 21 identified a polio patient as a person from New Yorks Rockland County who was not vaccinated against the disease. What is polio and how does it spread.

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New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio citing new evidence of possible community.

. Bassett warned Thursday after officials said wastewater samples had detected the. Polio has been found in wastewater samples taken from two counties outside of New York City indicating the virus is spreading in the community according to. Among those paralysed 510 die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.

It can be a serious infection caused by a virus which spreads easily through contact with the faeces poo of an infected person or less commonly through. A polio case in Rockland County New York may be the tip of the iceberg state Health Commissioner Dr. For the first time in almost a decade the United States has a diagnosed case of paralytic polioBut prominent public health experts say theres very little for most people to worry about.

New York state confirmed a case of polio. Typically symptoms like sore throat fever fatigue nausea headache and stomach pain last for around three to seven days he said but people can still spread polio for three or more weeks. It was believed to have originated outside the US.

But now a much older and once eradicated disease is back on the scene. New York state health officials have found indications of additional cases of polio virus in wastewater samples from two different counties leading them to warn that hundreds of people may be. Cases due to wild poliovirus have decreased by over 99 since 1988 from an estimated 350 000 cases then to 6 reported cases in 2021.

New York State health officials on Thursday intensified their push for people who have not been immunized against polio to get vaccinated right away saying the. Although you can get polio at any age kids under 5 have the highest risk of getting it. Polio is a rare disease and it can be caught from food or water thats been in contact with the faecal matter of someone who has the virus or in rarer cases by coughing and sneezing.

An oral polio vaccine is used in countries that are in the process of eradicating the disease. The vaccine contains weakened live strains of polio that grow briefly in the gut and provide a high. 4 2022 1003 pm.

The CDC confirmed that a patient in New York has contracted polio the first US. Plus de 9 personnes sur 10 infectées par le poliovirus nauront aucun symptôme ou très peu. The individual was an unvaccinated adult.

Dautres pourront souffrir dune polio sans paralysie dont les. Around 72 of people infected with polio have no visible symptoms according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Polio is a virus that spreads easily between people who arent vaccinated.

From COVID to monkeypox there has been no shortage of concerning new illnesses to worry about. 5 2022 New York state health officials issued a more urgent call on Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio citing new evidence of. On July 21 health.

Polio poliomyelitis mainly affects children under 5 years of age. But most people shouldnt be concerned about contracting the virus because of high vaccination rates. One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis.

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