Vaccine-derived polio was reported in New York. Here's what that means for you and what to know about the virus.
“The big lesson, with monkeypox and polio now: What happens somewhere else in the world, it doesn’t stay there,” said, the associate medical director of Infection Prevention at Yale New Haven Hospital.First, don’t panic: The confirmed case does not mean the original virus is back.Dr. Amesh Adalja
Vaccine-derived polio is different. One of the vaccines that was used to control polio around the world is called the Saven vaccine. “That is a live oral vaccine,” Adalja said, and in rare cases, the “ The person who contracted polio in New York got it from someone who received a live vaccine in another country.Polio is an infectious disease that we haven’t had to worry about in the United States for decades, Roberts said.It’s a virus “that spreads most commonly through the [gastrointestinal tract], so through fecal-oral contamination of some sort,” Roberts stated. Similar to hepatitis A, the virus spreads when people don’t wash their hands and then handle food for others.
It’s important for people to stay up to date with their vaccinations, he added, noting that vaccines have faltered after the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly, childhood immunizations have fallen.
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