Health departments are debating how to respond to the news this summer of someone in Rockland County, New York who became paralyzed from a polio infection.
The news has raised alarm among some public health officials because the last transmission of polio was in 1979, according to an article in NPR on August 24, 2022. The article reports that few people with polio show symptoms and the fact that one person became paralyzed may suggest a more significant problem of people actively transmitting the virus.
“Clearly a confirmed case of polio in the United States is major news,” Irina Gelman, the. Commissioner of Health, in nearby Orange County, told NPR.
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