Polio reported in Rockland County, NY — first known case in US since 2013

[Kamaji]

Polio reported in Rockland County, NY — first known case in US since 2013

By Ben Kesslen and Zach Williams
July 21, 2022

A Rockland County, New York, resident has polio — marking the first case recorded in the US in nearly a decade, officials said Thursday.

The New York State and Rockland County Departments of Health did not immediately provide further details about the patient or their condition.

State health officials, however, advised medical practitioners to be “vigilant for additional cases.”

The chain of transmission that led to the case is under investigation, the state DOH said.

Polio is an highly contagious virus that often enters the body through the mouth, and in its worst cases can cause paralysis or death.

The highly-effective CDC-approved vaccine against the virus, which is required for schoolchildren in New York state, all but eradicated the disease in the US in the 1970s. The Rockland County case is the first recorded in the country since 2013.

The state DOH told The Post it is the first known instance of polio in New York in decades, but did not provide an exact date of the last recorded case.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/21/case-of-polio-reported-in-ny-first-known-case-in-us-since-2013/

[Wingnut]

Who Had Polio Epidemic for July?

[Wingnut]

BTW, the victim is prolly came from another country since they confirmed he was vaxxed with the "oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is no longer authorized or administered in the U.S., where only the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been given since 2000,"

[Polly Ticks]

The highly-effective CDC-approved vaccine against the virus, which is required for schoolchildren in New York state, all but eradicated the disease in the US in the 1970s.

Now THAT is a vaccine.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Can I take Scarlet Fever for August?

[Wingnut]

Can I take Scarlet Fever for August?

I was thinking Beriberi disease.

[EdinVA]

Open borders strike again....

[sneakypete]

I haven't read the news story yet,but I am going to go out on a limb and guess it was an illegal alien.

[Kamaji]

New details emerge in first known US polio case since 2013

By Natalie O'Neill
July 22, 2022

The first known US case of polio in nearly a decade was contracted by an unvaccinated 20-year-old man in Rockland County who had recently traveled to Poland and Hungary, health officials said.

The man was hospitalized in June and initially diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis, a spinal cord condition that causes paralysis and muscle weakness, a health official not unauthorized to speak told the Washington Post.

Doctors soon found a type of polio that’s generally transmitted abroad and the patient was discharged to his parents’ home, where he’s been living with his wife, according to the outlet.

The man, who sources told The Post was linked to the local Orthodox Jewish community, is not contagious, the state Health Department said in an alert Thursday.

There have been no reported polio cases in Hungary or Poland in recent years, though nearby Ukraine — which residents are fleeing amid the Russian invasion — has reported at least 19 cases since January, according to Science Daily.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/new-details-emerge-in-first-known-us-polio-case-since-2013/

[sneakypete]

New details emerge in first known US polio case since 2013

By Natalie O'Neill
July 22, 2022

The first known US case of polio in nearly a decade was contracted by an unvaccinated 20-year-old man in Rockland County who had recently traveled to Poland and Hungary, health officials said.

The man was hospitalized in June and initially diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis, a spinal cord condition that causes paralysis and muscle weakness, a health official not unauthorized to speak told the Washington Post.

Doctors soon found a type of polio that’s generally transmitted abroad and the patient was discharged to his parents’ home, where he’s been living with his wife, according to the outlet.

The man, who sources told The Post was linked to the local Orthodox Jewish community, is not contagious, the state Health Department said in an alert Thursday.

There have been no reported polio cases in Hungary or Poland in recent years, though nearby Ukraine — which residents are fleeing amid the Russian invasion — has reported at least 19 cases since January, according to Science Daily.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/new-details-emerge-in-first-known-us-polio-case-since-2013/

@Kamaji

Are all obedient Orthodox Jews anti-Vax?