New York state health officials issued a more urgent call on Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of 'potential community spread' of the debilitating virus.
right away. Unvaccinated people who live, work, attend school, or visit Rockland County, Orange County, and the greater New York metropolitan area face the highest risk of exposure right now, health officials said.
“This unprecedented circulation of polio in our community from a devastating disease that was eradicated from the United States in 1979 must be stopped,” Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, DO, the Rockland County health commissioner, said in the statement. Symptoms of polio, which can be mild and flu-like, can take up to 30 days to appear. During that time, an infected person can shed the virus to others. Some polio cases can result in paralysis or death, with about 5% to 10% of paralysis cases ending in death due to disabledThere is no cure for polio, but it is preventable through immunization, health officials said.
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