New York is stunned! Polio found in sewer pipes The state speeds up vaccination.
US public health officials It was announced on August 1 that the polio virus had been found in a sewer in a suburb of New York City, a month before health officials announced the first case in July. The official urged people to check that they had received the vaccine.
Polio was found in water samples collected from sewers in June. This means that the virus was present in the American community prior to the first adult man diagnosed with polio. in Rockland County this past July.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement that the presence of polio might indicate that more people may be spreading the virus through faeces. Found a new case report And there is no clear indication that the polio virus is spreading seriously in New York or other areas of the United States.
Often, people with polio are asymptomatic and can continue to spread the infection. But there may be a flu-like fever and symptoms may develop following 30 days of exposure, while polio can cause permanent paralysis. Even though there is no cure But the disease can be prevented by vaccination, which was invented in 1955.
New York City officials said a vaccination clinic was opened for people who had not been vaccinated once morest polio. The vaccine that the American people will receive will be the inactivated polio vaccine, which is the only type of polio vaccine available in the United States.
