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NEW: We have additional details about that unvaccinated Rockland County, N.Y. man diagnosed with polio. He is 20, traveled to Poland and Hungary earlier this year, and having difficulty walking. My story w @majohnso

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The first U.S. case of polio in nearly a decade has been confirmed in an unvaccinated individual in Rockland County, N.Y., local and state health officials announced Thursday.

While the origins of the case are still being investigated, the 20-year-old man had traveled to Poland and Hungary this year and was hospitalized in June, according to a public health official close to the investigation who was not authorized to speak on the record. He was initially diagnosed with a possible case of acute flaccid myelitis, caused by inflammation of the spinal cord that results in severe muscle weakness and paralysis. But subsequent testing detected a type of polio that indicates transmission from outside the United States, according to a joint https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/2022-07-21_polio_rockland_county.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); color: rgb(25, 85, 165); text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); - alert Thursday from the New York State Health Department and Rockland County.

The patient has since been discharged and living at his parents’ home with his wife. He is able to stand, but is having difficulty walking, the official said.

Officials did not elaborate on why the patient is no longer contagious. But he sought treatment at a hospital in New York City around June 20, the official said. Patients are most contagious during the first two weeks of illness, said Thomas Giordano, chief of infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine.

Polio is a very contagious, life-threatening viral disease that causes permanent paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated in about 5 out of every 1,000 cases. Most of the U.S. population has protection against the disease because they were vaccinated during childhood. But in areas with low vaccination coverage, such as the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County, people who are not vaccinated are at high risk. There is no treatment for polio, but vaccination prevents the disease.

Up to 95 percent of people infected with polio have no symptoms but can still be contagious. About 4 to 5 percent of infected people have minor symptoms such as fever, muscle weakness, headache, nausea, and vomiting. Symptoms can take up to 30 days to appear. One to 2 percent of infected people develop severe muscle pain and stiffness in the neck and back. Less than 1 percent of polio infections result in paralysis.

The Rockland County man lives in a community that has historically been under-vaccinated and was the epicenter of the https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/antivaxxers-go-viral-in-communities-battling-measles/2019/05/20/a476417c-78d7-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_21" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); color: rgb(25, 85, 165); text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); - measles outbreak in 2019, according to public health officials who spoke on the condition on anonymity.

In this case, genetic sequencing performed by the Wadsworth Center — New York state’s public health laboratory — and confirmed by the CDC, showed a type of polio virus that indicates transmission from someone who received the oral polio vaccine, according to Thursday’s alert.

DJ Unvaccinated against polio that means I think...more info on CoViD(vaccination) status (also in monkeypox) would be more then welcome !

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