Four cases were diagnosed in the northern city of Safed earlier this month, despite the vaccination campaign carried out last year
New York State has recommended that all citizens planning to travel to Israel get vaccinated against polio, where several children have recently tested positive for the virus. “In recent days, the Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that four children had tested positive for the poliomyelitis virus in the north of the country, after an unvaccinated child showed symptoms of paralysis,” it said. custody of the state health department in a statement released Friday.
The health department is referring to the four cases diagnosed in the northern city of Safed earlier this month, a year after a small outbreak of the disease emerged in the country. New York health officials are in contact with their Israeli counterparts “to ensure a coordinated response,” the statement said.
“Polio is a contagious and life-threatening disease that can cause paralysis and death. The vaccine is safe and provides the most basic protection in virus-infected areas,” the statement said. The epidemic that broke out in Israel last March, after the discovery of the first case of polio in the country since 1989, gave rise to a vaccination campaign against the disease.
Besides Israel, the statement calls on travelers to take polio precautions before traveling to the UK, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and several other countries in the world. ‘Central Africa.
