publishedJul 22, 2022 at 2:38 p.m
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New YorkFirst case of polio infection in the US in almost 10 years
A man became the first person to contract polio in almost a decade. Also known as polio, the disease is believed to be nearly eradicated from the world.
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A man from upstate New York has tested positive for polio.
–IMAGO/Eckhard Stengel
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–The polio vaccine can also be given as an oral vaccine.
–AFP
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–A girl receives a vaccination during an anti-polio campaign in a low-income neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan.
–REUTERS
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For the first time in almost a decade, a case of polio caused by a vaccinated person has been detected in the United States. The local health authority in Rockaway County, New York state said on Thursday that an unvaccinated resident of the state had contracted the disease.
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Transmitting person was vaccinated
An initial sequencing suggests that transmission originated from a human who had been vaccinated with the oral polio vaccine, which contains live-attenuated viruses. This is no longer permitted in the USA. Therefore, the virus may have come from a place outside the country, according to the health authority.
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Polio is divided into wild-type and vaccine-derived viruses. wild polioviruses are only in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mozambique and the United States so far this year, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative Sudan occurred. However, polio cases in several countries can be caused by viruses from live vaccines. In the USA and also in Germany only inactive polio vaccine is used.
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Last known infections in the early 1980s
According to media reports, polio has been eradicated in the United States since 1979. The last known case of vaccine polio was in 2013 in a baby with a very weak immune system.
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In Switzerland, the last autochthonous case that goes back to a wild virus infection was reported in 1982. Individual polio vaccines or combination vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib, meningitis (with or without hepatitis B) provide at least 95 percent protection against polio.
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(AFP/DPA/pco)
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