Polio case detected in New York’s Rockland County

Fears of a Polio outbreak are growing after a case of the deadly virus was found in New York State. This was the first case of Polio in the United States in over 40 years.

The diagnosis was made in a patient who resides in Rockland County, according to an announcement made by the New York State Department of Health on Thursday.

Since 1979, the United States has not had a single incidence of polio that originated in the country, as stated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

However, the CDC warns that it is possible for the virus to be brought into the country by a traveler from another country. This was the situation in 1993, which was the last time polio was found in the United States.

The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) believes that the most recent incidence may have originated in a place other than the United States because the patient received the oral polio vaccine, which is not permitted nor administered in the United States.

Ed Day, the County Executive, said, “The fact that it’s still around decades after the vaccine was made shows how persistent it is.”

The disabling and potentially fatal disease was previously considered one of the most dreaded viruses in the United States during the early 1950s.

The virus can have an effect on the nervous system, lead to muscle weakness, and in extreme cases, cause paralysis or death.

Cases typically arise as a result of the virus entering the body through the mouth, typically as a result of hands that have been contaminated with the feces of an individual who is already sick.

Transmission of the disease via the lungs and mouth via saliva may also be responsible for certain cases.

It may take up to 30 days for symptoms to show, and they may be minor and similar to those of the flu. These symptoms include fatigue, fever, headache, stiffness, muscle soreness, and vomiting.

Before the vaccines became widely available in the middle of the 1950s, polio epidemics were responsible for more than 15,000 annual cases of paralysis.

The confirmed case of Polio is just the latest virus to come back in the US. Right now, monkeypox is spreading across the country.

The latest report from the CDC on Friday puts the total number of cases in the US at 2,323. This is just a few months after the first case was found in May.