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Polio Virus has Spread in NYC Since April - CDC
The first case of polio in over a decade was reported in the city last month - and may have been caught in contaminated local water supplies which have been circulating around the state for up to one year, experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest.
While original transmission may have come from abroad, the patient had not traveled internationally, and the contracted strain is related to polioviruses reported in the UK and Israel recently - a strain which is linked to the polio vaccine.
Infections can happen when live oral vaccines - developed in laboratories in a weakened form - are given to communities with low vaccine coverage, experts warned, increasing “risk for additional cases of paralytic polio” - a form of infection causing paralysis.
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Polio Virus has Spread in NYC Since April - CDC
The first case of polio in over a decade was reported in the city last month - and may have been caught in contaminated local water supplies which have been circulating around the state for up to one year, experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest.
While original transmission may have come from abroad, the patient had not traveled internationally, and the contracted strain is related to polioviruses reported in the UK and Israel recently - a strain which is linked to the polio vaccine.
Infections can happen when live oral vaccines - developed in laboratories in a weakened form - are given to communities with low vaccine coverage, experts warned, increasing “risk for additional cases of paralytic polio” - a form of infection causing paralysis.