We just had the first case of polio in the United States since 2013.
Unsurprising that this occurred in Rockland County, NY. It's a major Orthodox Jewish center, and has very low vaccination rates. They were ground zero for a measles outbreak in 2019 as well.
The first U.S. case of polio in nearly a decade has been confirmed in an unvaccinated individual in Rockland County, N.Y., local and state health officials announced Thursday.
While the origins of the case are still being investigated, the 20-year-old man had traveled to Poland and Hungary this year and was hospitalized in June, according to a public health official close to the investigation who was not authorized to speak on the record. He was initially diagnosed with a possible case of acute flaccid myelitis, caused by inflammation of the spinal cord that results in severe muscle weakness and paralysis. But subsequent testing detected a type of polio that indicates transmission from outside the United States, according to a joint alert Thursday from the New York State Health Department and Rockland County.
The patient has since been discharged and living at his parents’ home with his wife. He is able to stand, but is having difficulty walking, the official said.
Hungary? Probably a Satmar Chassid.
………The oral (attenuated virus) vaccine is not administered in the US, so he probably caught it in Europe.
The Rockland County man lives in a community that has historically been under-vaccinated and was the epicenter of the measles outbreak in 2019, according to public health officials who spoke on the condition on anonymity.
In this case, genetic sequencing performed by the Wadsworth Center — New York state’s public health laboratory — and confirmed by the CDC, showed a type of polio virus that indicates transmission from someone who received the oral polio vaccine, according to Thursday’s alert.
If the US had a functioning public health regime, we would see a lot less of this crap.
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