Posted on 10/05/2022 7:37:29 AM PDT by Twotone
Good to know. Thx.
Was the case from wild polio or vaccine derived polio...?
Well, lookee here...
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/07/new-york-detects-vaccine-derived-polio-case
If there was, it would have been identified by now. Polio has been a known disease for thousands of years and is extremely infectious. The Poliomyelitis virus that causes it was identified early in 20th Century. Polio was eradicated in the U.S. by the early 1970s.
As of 2019, the only cases of natural polio reported in the world were in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In addition, vaccine derived cases were reported in a dozen third world countries that still used the oral vaccine (because it is a whole lot cheaper and easier to distribute).
With open U.S. borders and migrants streaming into the U.S. from around the world it is just a matter of time before both natural and vaccine derived cases start to spread in the U.S.
I’ve read papers theorizing an undiscovered animal reservoir in Afghanistan and Pakistan exactly because wild type polio keeps popping up there. Top three candidates are lizard, bat, or rodent, with lizard being the most likely and the least studied.
We haven’t discovered everything yet.
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