Faced with the resurgence of poliomyelitis, the vaccine as the best defense weapon

It is a disease that seemed from another age in the West. On July 21, the United States reported its first case of poliomyelitis in almost ten years. The 20-year-old man lives in Rockland County, 30 miles from New York. He had gone to the hospital following a paralysis of the leg. Quickly diagnosed as being infected with poliovirus, the causative agent of the disease, he still suffers from partial paralysis. He was not vaccinated.